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▪ I. binge, v. Sc.
Also 6 bynge, 8 beenge, 9 beenje.
[Of late formation, app. with a feeling for the initial sound of bow, bend, beck, and the closing sound of cringe; cf. whinge. The dial. binge to soak (Lincoln.) appears to be a different word.]
intr. To make a low obeisance, to curtsey; also to fawn, cringe. bingeing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1562A. Scott N. Yere Gift Quene, Thay bad thame bek and bynge at deid mennis banes. 1712Arbuthnot John Bull ii. iv. (1755) 51, I mun stand becking and binging, as I gang out and into the hall. 1724Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1729) 17 The Maiden blusht and bing'd fu' law. 1805J. Nicol Poems I. 187 (Jam.) Beenjin slaves ca' them divine. 1879Jamieson Sc. Dict. s.v. Beck, ‘A great deal of becking and beenging’ is a phrase still used among the vulgar.
▪ II. binge, n.1 Sc.
In 5 bing, 6 benge, 7 beinge.
[f. prec. vb.]
A servile bow or obeisance.
c1450Henryson Mor. Fab. 24 (Quod hee) with many bing and many becke. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. III. 105 With mony benge and bek, He salust him. 1681R. Law Mem. (1818) 190 With many a scrape, beck and beinge.
▪ III. binge, n.2 slang (orig. dial.: see E.D.D.).|bɪndʒ|
[Special use of dial. binge to soak (a wooden vessel).]
A heavy drinking-bout; hence, a spree.
1854A. E. Baker Gloss. Northampt. Words s.v., A man goes to the alehouse to get a good binge, or to binge himself. 1889Barrère & Leland Dict. Slang, Binge (Oxford), a big drinking bout. 1922Chambers's Jrnl. Sept. 569/1 This is only a binge—just a jolly old bachelor-party. 1928Wodehouse in Strand Mag. July 4 Eh? What about our Monte Carlo binge?
So binge v.2 refl. and pass., to drink heavily, ‘soak’; intr. to have a ‘binge’; trans. to enliven, const. up (cf. ‘pep up’).
1854[see binge n.2]. 1910Belloc On Something xxii. 195 It is plainly evident that they know how to binge. 1914Earl Beatty Let. 17 Nov. in W. S. Chalmers Life & Lett. (1951) 163 And one has to be cheerful and encouraging to the others and binge them up to live in hope every time that this is the time. 1925Sunday at Home Dec. 146/1 One man was so binged in drink and so enchained by the craving for it. 1935E. Bagnold National Velvet xiv. 224 The information having been looked over and binged up here and toned down there..Reuter sent round the world the following message.
▸ gen. A bout of overindulgence; an instance of engaging in a particular activity (esp. eating) to excess (cf. binge eating n.).
1937Daily Independent (Monessen, Pa.) 4 Aug. 4/2 Marshall Neilan now and then goes on an eating binge. 1973H. L. Nieburg Culture Storm xii. 237 The Weathermen who conducted a destructive three-hour binge of window-breakage in Chicago. 1977Psychol. Today Mar. 50 The distinguishing feature of bulimarexia is its regular binges, its orgies of eating followed by ritual purification. 1990Sunday Express 15 Apr. (Mag. section) 12/2 The period after..[his] 1981 drug binge was a nightmare. 1992Slimmer Dec. 20/2 I'd starve myself and go on a binge, so any weight I did lose went back on. 2004Wall St. Jrnl. (Central ed.) 9 Aug. a4/3 Consumers needed the steroids of repeated tax cuts and successive rounds of mortgage-refinancing to sustain their remarkable spending binge.
▸ binge–purge adj. (also binge/purge) = binge-and-purge n. and adj. (b) at Additions.
1980Frederick (Maryland) Post 26 Sept. f7/2 This is the ‘*binge-purge syndrome’... When the ‘food high’ passes.., the woman either induces vomiting or fills herself with laxatives. 1984M. B. White & W. C. White (title) Bulimarexia: the binge/purge cycle. 2003Boston Herald (Nexis) 26 Nov. 95 The supersmart businessmen who run the Sox can't escape the franchise's binge-purge relationship with its top talents. 2006Coach & Athletic Director Feb. 12/3 The new statement provides recommendations..on specific issues such as binge-purge behavior.
▸ binge-and-purge n. and adj. (a) n. the practice or condition of binge-eating and subsequently inducing vomiting or emptying of the bowels (cf. purge v.1 2e); (b) adj. of or characterized by this practice; also in extended use.
1976Signs 2 351 (heading) The psychodynamics of the *binge and purge. 1981N.Y. Times 31 May xxii. 1/4 She was ready to resume a rigid diet that would last a few days, until her fierce hunger would send her on another binge and purge episode. 1993Mother Jones Jan.–Feb. 26/1 Five years ago, Gondolf went into therapy, hoping to put an end to her chronic binge-and-purge eating disorder. 1997Chicago Tribune 17 Aug. iii. 1/5 The PGA Championship leaderboard had a binge-and-purge session Friday, ridding itself of the best feel-good story of the tournament. 2004Sacramento (Calif.) Bee (Nexis) 6 Jan. Our highly progressive tax system produces the fiscal equivalent of binge-and-purge. |