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Spree
Definitions
- 1 A river in Germany that flows through Lusatia and into Berlin, where it flows into the Havel.
- 1 Uninhibited activity. in-compounds
"spending spree"
- 2 a brief indulgence of your impulses wordnet
- 3 A merry frolic; especially, a drinking frolic. dated
"Tradition says she spent the last two years of her life in the strange den I have been speaking of, after having indulged herself in one final, triumphant and satisfying spree."
- 1 To engage in a spree. intransitive, rare
"And I never spreed with the fellows as a student any more than I had enjoyed myself with the lads in the playground."
- 2 engage without restraint in an activity and indulge, as when shopping wordnet
Etymology
Unknown. According to Douglas Harper’s Online Etymological Dictionary, “a word of uncertain origin. Perhaps [Barnhart] an alteration of French esprit (“lively wit”) (see esprit). According to Klein, Irish spré seems to be a loan-word from Old Norse sprakr. Watkins proposes a possible origin as an alteration of Scots spreath (“cattle raid”), from Gaelic sprédh, spré (“cattle; wealth”), from Middle Irish preit, preid (“booty”), ultimately from Latin praeda (“plunder, booty”)”.
Unknown. According to Douglas Harper’s Online Etymological Dictionary, “a word of uncertain origin. Perhaps [Barnhart] an alteration of French esprit (“lively wit”) (see esprit). According to Klein, Irish spré seems to be a loan-word from Old Norse sprakr. Watkins proposes a possible origin as an alteration of Scots spreath (“cattle raid”), from Gaelic sprédh, spré (“cattle; wealth”), from Middle Irish preit, preid (“booty”), ultimately from Latin praeda (“plunder, booty”)”.
Borrowed from German Spree.
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