streperous

English

Etymology

From Latin streperus, from strepere. See strepent, and compare obstreperous.

Adjective

streperous (comparative more streperous, superlative most streperous)

1. (archaic) loud; boisterous
   • 1617, Francis Bacon, letter to the King:

     streperous carriage

   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     And though Porta conceive, becauſe in a ſtreperous eruption, it riſeth against fire it doth therefore reſiſt lightning, yet is that no emboldning Illation

   • 1911, Quincy Allen, The Outdoor Chums, Chapter 6:

     "I war jest a-countin' ob dem jailbirds, an' had 'rived at 'leven w'en a 'streperous root she keeled me ober.

References

• “streperous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

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