boisterous

English

Etymology

From Middle English boistres, an alteration of Middle English boistous, from Anglo-Norman bustous (“rough”), perhaps from Old French boitous (“noisy”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔɪstəɹəs/, /ˈbɔɪstɹəs/

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Adjective

boisterous (comparative more boisterous, superlative most boisterous)

1. Full of energy; exuberant; noisy.
2. Characterized by violence and agitation; wild; stormy.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iv:

     ſtaggering like a quiuering Aſpen leafe,
     Fearing the force of Boreas boiſtrous blaſts.

   • 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XLI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 219:

     A new and elegant dress had been provided by Lady Anne for the second day, but it was of less costly material, and, by the same rule, considerably slighter; so that Fanchette suggested the idea of substituting a slip to make it equally warm, as the weather had set in cold and boisterous.

3. Having or resembling animal exuberance.

Derived terms

• boisterously
• boisterousness

Translations

full of energy; noisy

• Bulgarian: шумен (bg) (šumen), буен (bg) (buen)
• Catalan: sorollós (ca), escandalós
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 喧鬧的 (zh) (xuānnào de), 愛鬧的／爱闹的 (àinào de), 狂歡的／狂欢的 (zh) (kuánghuān de), 狂暴的 (zh) (kuángbào de), 猛烈的 (zh) (měngliè de), 哄然的 (hōngrán de)

• Dutch: driest (nl)
• Esperanto: bruema
• Finnish: äänekäs (fi), remuisa
• French: bruyant (fr), tapageur (fr)
• Galician: ruidoso
• German: ungestüm (de), ausgelassen (de), lebendig (de), lebhaft (de), agitiert (de), laut (de), polternd (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: λάβρος (lábros)

• Italian: esuberante (it), chiassoso (it)
• Japanese: 騒々しい (そうぞうしい, sōzōshii), 喧しい (ja) (やかましい, yakamashii), うるさい (ja) (urusai), 賑やかな (ja) (にぎやかな, nigiyaka na)
• Korean: 떠들썩하다 (ko) (tteodeulsseokhada)
• Latin: bacchabundus
• Macedonian: бу́чен (búčen), бу́ен (búen), жив (živ), шу́мен (šúmen)
• Maori: tarakaka
• Plautdietsch: lud
• Polish: hałaśliwy (pl)
• Portuguese: ruidoso (pt)
• Russian: шу́мный (ru) (šúmnyj), бу́рный (ru) (búrnyj), бу́йный (ru) (bújnyj), шумли́вый (ru) (šumlívyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: bučan (sh), razigran (sh), neobuzdan (sh)
• Spanish: ruidoso (es), escandaloso (es)
• Ukrainian: гомінливий (hominlyvyj)

characterized by violence and agitation; wild; stormy

• Bulgarian: бурен (bg) (buren)
• Dutch: stormachtig (nl)
• Finnish: riehakas (fi)
• French: turbulent (fr)
• Galician: salvaxe (gl)
• German: stürmisch (de), tosend (de), wild (de), ungestüm (de), aufrührerisch (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: λάβρος (lábros)

• Italian: turbolento (it), tempestoso (it)
• Kazakh: тулағыш (tulağyş)
• Korean: 격렬하다 (ko) (gyeongnyeolhada)
• Macedonian: бу́рен (búren)
• Maori: tūperepere, tuarangaranga (of the sea)
• Portuguese: tumultuoso (pt)
• Russian: бу́рный (ru) (búrnyj), бу́йный (ru) (bújnyj), неи́стовый (ru) (neístovyj) (of force, weather)
• Spanish: salvaje (es)
• Swedish: stormig (sv)

having or resembling animal exuberance

• Galician: salvaxe (gl)
• Kazakh: тулағыш (tulağyş)
• Polish: dziki (pl), zwierzęcy (pl)
• Spanish: salvaje (es)

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• Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} fyrirgangssamur, ^{(please verify)} hávaðasamur