† streperousadj.
Obsolete.
Noisy, harsh-sounding.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > [adjective] > noisy
fervent1465
brawlinga1568
baw-waw1570
rouncing?1576
ruff-raff1582
reirding1591
wrangling1608
perstreperous1629
ran-tan1630
streperous1637
clamant1639
chiding1648
loudmouth1668
noisy1675
noise-making1678
strepitous1681
dinsome1724
strepent1750
dinny1768
loud-mouthing1788
dinning1813
blatant1816
noisome1825
strepitant1855
polyphloisboisterousa1875
noisesome1925
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > [adjective] > making harsh or discordant sound
hoarsec1369
ganglinga1398
roughlyc1400
rauk?a1425
rustyc1430
hask?1440
savagea1450
raw1474
hoar?a1505
harsh1530
untunable1545
jarring1552
jarry1582
barking1589
absonant1600
wrangling1608
raucous1615
asper1626
streperous1637
scrannel1638
caterwaulinga1652
unmelodious1665
jangling1667
latrant1702
untuneful1709
raucid1730
unharmonious1742
unmelodized1771
unmelodic1823
raucal1826
rauque1845
raspish1847
serratic1859
jangled1874
jangly1891
amelodic1937
1637 T. Heywood Londini Speculum sig. B3v Triton with his pearly trumpets blew A streperous blast.
1637 T. Heywood Dial. i. 7 He..with a voice strep'rous and loud (That all they in the ship might heare him) vow'd To set before that Saint a waxen Light.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. vi. 100 In a streperous eruption it [the bay-tree] riseth against Fire. View more context for this quotation
a1688 R. Cudworth Treat. Eternal & Immutable Morality (1731) iv. ii. 182 The streperous Noise of a Single Fiddle.
1822 T. Taylor tr. Apuleius Metamorphosis ii. 39 Scarcely had the streperous song of the crested cohort proclaimed a truce to night.
Derivatives
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > [adverb] > noisy
noisefully?1611
noisily1779
streperously1822
whang1844
rowdily1853
1822 T. Taylor tr. Apuleius Metamorphosis iv. 72 They play clamorously, they sing streperously.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > [noun]
loudnessc1050
magnitude?a1425
vehemencyc1487
noisiness1727
streperousness1727
thunderousness1904
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Streperousness, Noisiness.
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