figurative. Of persons, their actions or expressions: Effusive in display of feeling. Now more usually, Abounding in health and spirits…

Flouncing; boisterous.

Unregulated in conduct; not staid or grave.

Of persons: Not staid or regulated in deportment or conduct.

transferred. Wild, frisky, untrained.

Spirited, active, lively; frolicsome.

Not settled or staid in character; of a restless or turbulent disposition.

Untameable.

Violent or reckless in action or behaviour; full of excitement; headstrong, passionate; ranting, roistering; boisterous, rollicking, exuberant. collo…

Of persons and their actions. Abounding in rough but good-natured activity bordering upon excess, such as proceeds from unchecked exuberance of…

Obtrusively noisy or cacophonous; clattering, rattling; boisterous, rowdy.

Boisterous, turbulent; unruly.

Wildly excited; riotous, boisterous, lively; bad-tempered, inclined to rant, characterized by ranting.

Unruly; behaving in an obstreperous manner. Also: overconfident.

Of persons: Dashing, lively, boisterous.

Scottish. Flighty, frolicsome; of a horse: Skittish.

Making, or given to making, an uproar.

Not placid; excitable, volatile; agitated, unsettled.

Playful, lively, boisterous; (of a person) engaged in skylarking, inclined to skylark.

Given to fizz. Also figurative.

Noisy; boisterous.

= polyphloisboian, adj.

Characterized by boisterous or noisy behaviour; rowdy, disorderly, uproarious. Also: garish, obtrusively prominent.

Consisting of, characteristic of, or suitable for boys or young men; assertively masculine in character; (also) youthfully boisterous.

(cf. knockabout, adj.) rough, boisterous.

Resembling the Winnie-the-Pooh character Tigger; exuberant, energetic; (also, less positively) irrepressible.