▪ I. binge, v. Sc.
Also 6 bynge, 8 beenge, 9 beenje.
[Of late formation, app. with a feeling for the initial sound of bow, bend, beck, and the closing sound of cringe; cf. whinge. The dial. binge to soak (Lincoln.) appears to be a different word.]
intr. To make a low obeisance, to curtsey; also to fawn, cringe. bingeing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
| 1562 A. Scott N. Yere Gift Quene, Thay bad thame bek and bynge at deid mennis banes. 1712 Arbuthnot John Bull ii. iv. (1755) 51, I mun stand becking and binging, as I gang out and into the hall. 1724 Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1729) 17 The Maiden blusht and bing'd fu' law. 1805 J. Nicol Poems I. 187 (Jam.) Beenjin slaves ca' them divine. 1879 Jamieson Sc. Dict. s.v. Beck, ‘A great deal of becking and beenging’ is a phrase still used among the vulgar. |
▪ II. binge, n.1 Sc.
In 5 bing, 6 benge, 7 beinge.
[f. prec. vb.]
A servile bow or obeisance.
| c 1450 Henryson Mor. Fab. 24 (Quod hee) with many bing and many becke. 1535 Stewart Cron. Scot. III. 105 With mony benge and bek, He salust him. 1681 R. Law Mem. (1818) 190 With many a scrape, beck and beinge. |
▪ III. binge, n.2 slang (orig. dial.: see E.D.D.).
(bɪndʒ)
[Special use of dial. binge to soak (a wooden vessel).]
A heavy drinking-bout; hence, a spree.
| 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northampt. Words s.v., A man goes to the alehouse to get a good binge, or to binge himself. 1889 Barrère & Leland Dict. Slang, Binge (Oxford), a big drinking bout. 1922 Chambers's Jrnl. Sept. 569/1 This is only a binge—just a jolly old bachelor-party. 1928 Wodehouse in Strand Mag. July 4 Eh? What about our Monte Carlo binge? |
So binge v.2 refl. and pass., to drink heavily, ‘soak’; intr. to have a ‘binge’; trans. to enliven, const. up (cf. ‘pep up’).
| 1854 [see binge n.2]. 1910 Belloc On Something xxii. 195 It is plainly evident that they know how to binge. 1914 Earl Beatty Let. 17 Nov. in W. S. Chalmers Life & Lett. (1951) 163 And one has to be cheerful and encouraging to the others and binge them up to live in hope every time that this is the time. 1925 Sunday at Home Dec. 146/1 One man was so binged in drink and so enchained by the craving for it. 1935 E. Bagnold National Velvet xiv. 224 The information having been looked over and binged up here and toned down there..Reuter sent round the world the following message. |
▸ gen. A bout of overindulgence; an instance of engaging in a particular activity (esp. eating) to excess (cf. binge eating n.).
| 1937 Daily Independent (Monessen, Pa.) 4 Aug. 4/2 Marshall Neilan now and then goes on an eating binge. 1973 H. L. Nieburg Culture Storm xii. 237 The Weathermen who conducted a destructive three-hour binge of window-breakage in Chicago. 1977 Psychol. Today Mar. 50 The distinguishing feature of bulimarexia is its regular binges, its orgies of eating followed by ritual purification. 1990 Sunday Express 15 Apr. (Mag. section) 12/2 The period after..[his] 1981 drug binge was a nightmare. 1992 Slimmer Dec. 20/2 I'd starve myself and go on a binge, so any weight I did lose went back on. 2004 Wall St. Jrnl. (Central ed.) 9 Aug. a4/3 Consumers needed the steroids of repeated tax cuts and successive rounds of mortgage-refinancing to sustain their remarkable spending binge. |
▸ binge–purge adj. (also binge/purge) = binge-and-purge n. and adj. (b) at Additions.
| 1980 Frederick (Maryland) Post 26 Sept. f7/2 This is the ‘*binge-purge syndrome’... When the ‘food high’ passes.., the woman either induces vomiting or fills herself with laxatives. 1984 M. B. White & W. C. White (title) Bulimarexia: the binge/purge cycle. 2003 Boston Herald (Nexis) 26 Nov. 95 The supersmart businessmen who run the Sox can't escape the franchise's binge-purge relationship with its top talents. 2006 Coach & Athletic Director Feb. 12/3 The new statement provides recommendations..on specific issues such as binge-purge behavior. |
▸ binge-and-purge n. and adj. (a) n. the practice or condition of binge-eating and subsequently inducing vomiting or emptying of the bowels (cf. purge v.1 2e); (b) adj. of or characterized by this practice; also in extended use.
| 1976 Signs 2 351 (heading) The psychodynamics of the *binge and purge. 1981 N.Y. Times 31 May xxii. 1/4 She was ready to resume a rigid diet that would last a few days, until her fierce hunger would send her on another binge and purge episode. 1993 Mother Jones Jan.–Feb. 26/1 Five years ago, Gondolf went into therapy, hoping to put an end to her chronic binge-and-purge eating disorder. 1997 Chicago Tribune 17 Aug. iii. 1/5 The PGA Championship leaderboard had a binge-and-purge session Friday, ridding itself of the best feel-good story of the tournament. 2004 Sacramento (Calif.) Bee (Nexis) 6 Jan. Our highly progressive tax system produces the fiscal equivalent of binge-and-purge. |