Orgy
['ɔːdʒɪ] or ['ɔrdʒi]
Definition
(noun.) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity.
(noun.) secret rite in the cults of ancient Greek or Roman deities involving singing and dancing and drinking and sexual activity.
(noun.) any act of immoderate indulgence; 'an orgy of shopping'; 'an emotional binge'; 'a splurge of spending'.
Editor: Wilma--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A frantic revel; drunken revelry. See Orgies
Checker: Victoria
Definition
n. any drunken or riotous rite or revelry esp. by night—(rare) Orge:—pl. Or′gies riotous secret rites observed in the worship of Bacchus.—v.i. Orge to indulge in riotous jollity.—n. Or′giast.—adjs. Orgias′tic Or′gic.
Typed by Laverne
Examples
- He thought his brother was not sober, and had been out all night on some orgy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Mr. Philander dropped the professor's arm, and broke into a mad orgy of speed that would have done credit to any varsity track team. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- These latter, the rumour had it, they sacrificed to some terrible god in an orgy which ended in the eating of their victims. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- This favoured tavern, sacred to the evening orgies of Mr. Lowten and his companions, was what ordinary people would designate a public-house. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Hitherto his orgies had always been confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and shattered, in the evening. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Typist: Robinson