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ORGY
orgy, debauch, debauchery, saturnalia, riot, bacchanal, bacchanalia, drunken revelry
(noun) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
orgy
(noun) secret rite in the cults of ancient Greek or Roman deities involving singing and dancing and drinking and sexual activity
orgy, binge, splurge
(noun) any act of immoderate indulgence; “an orgy of shopping”; “an emotional binge”; “a splurge of spending”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
orgy (plural orgies)
Originally, secret rites or ceremonies, typically involving riotous and dissolute behaviour, including dancing, drunkenness and indiscriminate sexual activity, undertaken in honour of various pagan gods or goddesses (such as Attis, Bacchus, Ceres, Dionysus, Osiris, etc).
A gathering of people to engage in group sex.
Excessive indulgence in a specified activity.
Anagrams
• GyĹ‘r, gory, gyro, gyro-, ogry
Source: Wiktionary
Or"gy, n.; pl. Orgies (.
Definition: A frantic revel; drunken revelry. See Orgies
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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