Spree Definition

sprē

sprees

noun

sprees

A lively, noisy frolic.

Webster's New World

A period of drunkenness.

Webster's New World

A period of uninhibited activity.

A shopping spree.

Webster's New World

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pronoun

A particular river that flows through Lusatia (eastern Germany) and into Berlin, where it flows into the Havel.

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Other Word Forms of Spree

Singular:

spree

Plural:

sprees

1804, from Irish spraoi (“fun, sport"), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse sprækr, sprakr (“lively, vigorous, sprightly"), from Proto-Germanic *sprakjaz, *sprakjÄ…, *sprukÄ… (“branch, sprout, splinter"), from Proto-Indo-European *(a)sp(h)arag-, *(a)sprāg- (“sprout"). Cognate with Icelandic sprækr (“sprightly"), Norwegian spræk (“cheerful, lively"), Swedish dialectal sprygg (“active, brisk"). More at spry.

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Perhaps alteration of Scots spreath, spreagh cattle stolen in a raid, cattle raid from Scottish Gaelic sprèidh cattle from Middle Irish ultimately from Latin praeda, booty ghend- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From German Spree, from a Slavic language.

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