Lexicographical Neighbors of Splurgy
Literary usage of Splurgy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall (1856)
"splurgy. Showy; of greater surface than depth. Applied to a lesson which is well
... They even pronounce his speeches splurgy. — Yale Tomahawk, May, 1852. ..."
2. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1900)
"I told her mother she ought to take that splurgy ring oft' the poor little thing's
thumb. It's most unsafe. ..."
3. The Yale Literary Magazine by Yale University, Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg (1850)
"But I can 't endure 's descriptions : he apes Headley, whom I abominate because
he is so splurgy. I should n't think of putting *uch things in the Mag- ..."
4. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1870)
"... and I find that he wants something less " saintly," more " worldly," more "
worldly-wise "—or, in an expressive word of student-slang, more splurgy. ..."
5. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1870)
"... and I find that he wants something less " saintly," more " worldly," more "
worldly-wise "—or, in an expressive word of student-slang, more splurgy. ..."
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