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Boisterous

//ˈbɔɪstəɹəs// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Full of energy; exuberant; noisy.

    "Open carriages tend to be draughty and inadequately heated. The passenger in them has no escape from the annoyance of squalling babies, boisterous drunks, and riotous teddy-boys, who may be at the far end of the coach but whose din cannot be shut out."

  2. 2
    Characterized by violence and agitation; wild; stormy.

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

  3. 3
    Having or resembling animal exuberance.
Adjective
  1. 1
    violently agitated and turbulent wordnet
  2. 2
    noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline wordnet
  3. 3
    full of rough and exuberant animal spirits wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English boistres, an alteration of Middle English boistous (“crude, unrefined”), of uncertain origin. Likely from Anglo-Norman boystous, bustous (“rough, in a crude state, disabled, paralysed, unable to walk, lame”), Old French boitous (“limping; having a rough, uneven surface”).

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