orgy
Plural: orgies
Noun
- A wild, unrestrained party, especially one involving sexual activity.
- any act of immoderate indulgence
- "an orgy of shopping"
- secret rite in the cults of ancient Greek or Roman deities involving singing and dancing and drinking and sexual activity
- a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
- Secret rites or ceremonies, typically involving riotous and dissolute behavior, including dancing, drunkenness and indiscriminate sexual activity, undertaken in honor of various pagan gods or goddesses (such as Attis, Bacchus, Ceres, Dionysus, Osiris, etc).
- A gathering of people to engage in group sex.
- An instance or period of excessive indulgence in a specified activity.
Examples
- The ORGY of vowels on his rack made it hard to find a high-scoring word.
Origin / Etymology
Originally in plural from French orgies, from Latin orgia, from Ancient Greek ὄργια (órgia, “secret rites, mysteries”).
Synonyms
bacchanal, bacchanalia, binge, debauch, debauchery, drunken revelry, riot, saturnalia, splurge, fuckfest
Scrabble Score: 8
orgy: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordorgy: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
orgy: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary