obstreperous.
Attended by, or making, a loud and tumultuous noise; boisterous.
Meaning & usage
Attended by, or making, a loud and tumultuous noise; boisterous.
Stubbornly defiant; disobedient; resistant to authority or control (whether in a noisy manner or not).
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder. Proto-Indo-European *h₁óp(i) Proto-Italic *op Latin ob Latin ob- Latin strepō Latin obstrepō Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Italic *-os Archaic Latin -os Latin -us Latin obstreperusbor. English obstreperous Borrowed from Latin obstreperus, first attested circa 17th c. Compare obstropulous.
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