obstreperous

Definition

Attended by, or making, a loud and tumultuous noise; boisterous.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin obstreperus, first attested circa 17th c. Compare obstropulous.

Example Sentences

• "[O]n a clear still summer evening you may hear from the battery of New York the obstreperous peals of broad-mouthed laughter of the Dutch negroes at Communipaw."
• "This disposition his subsequent life had not tended to change in any considerable degree, though increased knowledge, with much observation, and a little reading, had rendered the gaiety of the young man a very different thing to the obstreperous mirth of the boy."
• "[…] my hope Dwindled into a ghost not fit to cope With that obstreperous joy success would bring"