noisemaker
noun
a person or thing that makes noise, as a reveler on New Year's Eve, Halloween, etc., or a rattle, horn, or similar device used on such an occasion.
noisemaking
-
a word derived from
noisemaker.
Example Sentences
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Businesses have installed planters and other noisemaking devices to make staying in front of a storefront inconvenient.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2025
“For all of the sort of noisemaking and fearmongering that was associated with the opening of that facility, it has been a complete nothingburger,” Davis said.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2023
Billed as a “weekend retreat in Southampton” for social parties, in reality it is probably more like a “royal noisemaking nuisance,” at least to the pesky neighbors in Water Mill.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2016
No sooner had modern noise-absorbing buildings been built, he writes, “than their inhabitants proceeded to fill those interior spaces with newly available noisemaking technology.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2012
We danced until Big Ma told us to stop that noisemaking “like a herd of stampeding hippos.”
From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia
