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They also said on the radio here that Pacman is known as a loud, boisterous guy anyways and I guess it only escalates when he drinks.

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  1. adjective Characterized by high volume and intensity. Used of sound.
  2. adjective Producing sound of high volume and intensity.
  3. adjective Clamorous and insistent: loud denials.
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  • Consider it well: each tone of our scale in itself is naught It is everywhere in the world--loud, soft, and all is said: Give it to me to use! —  Browning's Shorter Poems
  • I mean for crying out loud, the word is spelled the way it's pronounced!
  • “His voice was loud, and well suited to stump oratory,” wrote a listener a few months later. —  Three Roads to Alamo
  • Though Schmettau's cannonade was very loud, and had been so all night, divine service was held as usual, streets safe again,--Austrians, I suppose, not firing with cannon. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • The rasp of painful breathing was loud, her own, sounding both in her ears and inside her head. —  F ;SF; - vol 092 issue 05 - May 1997
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harsh ·  shrill ·  noisy ·  soft ·  faint ·  silent

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loud:   louder ·  loudest
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English hlūd; see kleu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English loud, lud, from Anglo-Saxon hlūd = Old Saxon OFries. hlūd = Dutch luid = Middle Low German lūde, Low German lud = Old High German hlūt, Middle High German lūt, German laut (not in Scandinavian or Gothic (Moesogothic), the Danish adverb lydt, loudly, being prob. of Low German origin), loud, = L. *clutus in inclutus, renowned, famous, = Greek κλυτός, renowned, = Sanskrit çruta, heard, = Irish clōth, noble, brave; orig. past participle, with suffix -d, as also in cold, old, dead, etc. (see -d, -ed), of the verb represented by L. cluere = Greek κλύειν, hear, which also appears in Anglo-Saxon hlystan, English list, listen, etc., also in Greek κλέος, renown, glory, Latin gloria, glory, laus (laud-), praise, Welsh clod, praise, fame: see list, listen, client, glory, laud, lose, etc.
  2. from Middle English loude = Old Saxon hlūdo = Dutch luid = Old High German hlūto, Middle High German lūte, German laut = Danish lydt (prob. from Low German); from loud, adjective
 

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