† boistousnessn.
Obsolete.
1. Rudeness, roughness, lack of polish, want of gentleness or courtesy.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour
villainyc1340
churlhood1382
rudenessc1405
boistousness1526
uplandishness1530
rusticity1531
coarseness1541
loutishnessa1556
grossness1563
boorishness1570
rusticality1572
clownishness1576
bouerie1577
roughness1581
clownery1589
swinishness1591
peasantryc1592
inurbanity1598
community1600
rusticalnessa1603
clownagea1637
wildness1639
vulgarness1642
unpolishedness1652
brutism1687
mismanners1697
unpoliteness1700
brutality1709
mechanicism1710
indelicacy1712
untameness1727
vulgarism1749
vulgaritya1774
shag1785
piggishness1796
cubbishness1828
sylvanity1832
rusticness1838
plebeianness1840
swainishness1854
baboonery1857
yahooism1862
slanginess1865
bucolicism1879
vulgarianism1920
outbackery1961
yobbishness1969
ockerism1974
blokeishness1989
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. KKvi Ungentylnesse or boystuousnesse.
1598 Chaucers Dreame in T. Speght Wks. G. Chaucer f. 355v/2 Of your gentilnesse I you require my boistousnesse Ye let passe, as thing rude.
2. Coarseness, grossness, stiffness.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > constitution of matter > other specific kinds of texture > [noun] > coarse texture
boistousness1398
boistness1495
coarseness1541
coarse-grainedness1876
grossnessa1898
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum vi. xxii Þe whiche mete for his þiknesse and boystousnesse may not passe þe narow weyes..wiþ oute helpe of moysture of drynke.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 199/1 Boystuousnesse, roydevr.
3. Violence, boisterousness.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [noun]
brathc1175
reighshipc1275
airc1300
ragec1330
sturdinessc1384
violencea1387
fierceness1435
vehemencyc1487
furiosity1509
fiercetya1513
bremeness?1529
boistousness1530
vehemence1535
bruteness1538
violency1538
violentness1544
vehementness1561
wrath1579
fury1585
torture1605
keenness?1606
ragingness1621
stiffness1623
rapt1632
tempestuousness1648
boisterousnessa1650
rampancy1652
boisture1667
untamedness1727
paroxysm1893
storminess1894
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 200 Boustuousnesse, impetuosite.
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Matt. xiv. 30 (R.) The boysteousnes of the winde.
1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xxv. 17) Temptacions now and then cast us downe with their boustousnesse.
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