Future Insults
Resplurger
(n.)
A person who buys compulsively and unnecessarily, but does it second-hand and justifies the binge as virtuous.
The resplurger celebrated 212 clothes “saved” from landfill and left unworn.
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Coinage notes
Splurge meant “ostentatious display” from 1828, a full century before it came to mean a spending spree. The resplurger drags it back to display, telling anyone who’ll listen about their second-hand “steals.” Once the display flaunted wealth; now it flaunts virtue.
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