a. U.S. [f. SPLURGE sb. + -Y.] Showy, ostentatious.
1871. H. Bushnell, in M. B. Cheney, Life (1880), 524. Great care to be had of language—no hollow generalities, no splurgy matter, nothing fine.
1884. G. H. Boughton, in Harper’s Mag., Oct., 701/1. If one is happily indifferent to the splendid but splurgy meerschaum.
Hence Splurgily adv. U.S.
1869. Daily Examiner (San Francisco), 30 April, 1/4. Memory has it pleasures; but one of them isn’t in recollecting the very soft things you splurgily said in company last night.
1887. H. E. Scudder, in Atlantic Monthly, LX. 279/2. They are living freely, generously, and, if one may say so, splurgily.
