Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Noisy; loud; boisterous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Loud; boisterous.
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- adjective
loud ;boisterous
Etymologies
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Latin streperus, from Latin strepere. See strepent, and compare obstreperous.
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Examples
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I teached him to drive de cows an 'sheeps, an' I sic'd him on de dogs when dey got 'streperous.
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The notes grew less and less, no longer streperous but strangely musical, and finally were heard no more, leaving her oppressed by a sense of loneliness and desertion.
The Mayor of Warwick Herbert M��ller Hopkins 1890
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