| 单词 | to cut a splurge |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto cut a splurge a. An ostentatious display or effort. Also in to cut a splurge, to make an ostentatious display. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [noun] > (an) ostentatious display pompc1330 vaunterya1492 pomping pridec1503 braga1513 flaunt-a-flaunt1576 plume1580 affecting1584 top and topgallant1593 ruffle1609 parado1621 riota1649 flutter1667 show1713 sprunk1746 to make a splash1804 show-off1811 paraffle1816 shine1819 splurge1828 gaud1831 spludge1831 poppy-show1860 razzle1885 razzmatazz1917 foofaraw1933 showbiz1970 glitz1977 the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > make ostentatious display or show off [verb (intransitive)] brandishc1340 ruffle1484 braga1556 swash1556 flourish1563 flaunt1566 prank1567 prink1573 to shake, wag the feather1581 peacockize1598 air1605 display1608 to launch it out1608 flasha1616 to cut it out1619 flare1633 vapour1652 peacock1654 spark1676 to gallantrize it1693 bosh1709 glare1712 to cut a bosh1726 to show away1728 to figure away, off1749 parade1749 to cut a dashc1771 dash1786 to cut up1787 to cut a flash1795 to make, or cut, a splash1804 swank1809 to come out strong1825 to cut a spludge1831 to cut it (too) fat1836 pavonize1838 splurge1844 to do the grand1847 to cut a swath1848 to cut a splurge1860 to fan out1860 spread1860 skyre1871 fluster1876 to strut one's stuff1926 showboat1937 floss1938 style1968 1828 ‘F. Herbert’ Talisman for 1829 ii. 107 ‘What a splurge’ (said a Kentucky representative, in one of the favorite and most expressive words of Western invention)—‘what a splurge she makes’. 1860 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) 112 Cut a splurge,..to make a show or display in dress. 1864 Boston (Mass.) Commonw. 3 June Manton Marble..has just made a splurge in a letter addressed to the President. 1886 C. D. Warner My Summer in Garden (ed. 4) 152 They make a great deal of ostentatious splurge; and many of them come to no result at last. 1895 Punch 1 June 258/2 My anti-gambling old Gaffer 'as spiled the whole splurge. 1897 Chicago Tribune 19 Sept. 37/1 Two shrewd young Hoosiers..came to Chicago in 1891 and cut a big splurge in monetary and real estate circles. 1977 Daily Tel. 19 Jan. 4/3 Presidential inauguration ceremonies..will go on for the rest of the week in a $3 million (about £1,700,000) splurge of dances, parties and celebrations. < as lemmas |
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