raucous
[raw-kuhs]
- harsh; strident; grating: raucous voices; raucous laughter.
- rowdy; disorderly: a raucous party.
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He tooted it raucously, and then continued: "They say some of 'em can go like the wind."
Navy Boys Behind the Big GunsHalsey Davidson
The boisterousness was raucously profane—the general atmosphere was that of an unclean rookery.
When 'Bear Cat' Went DryCharles Neville Buck
She was chatting vivaciously with Jimmy and Jimmy had been laughing as raucously as a jackal—and so they had passed him by.
The Tyranny of WeaknessCharles Neville Buck
The noise broke in raucously upon that horrid gurgling sound without.
The Man with the ClubfootValentine Williams
Suddenly the men-crowded landing set up its cheer, and the steamers all whistled long and raucously.
Wounds in the rainStephen Crane
raucous
- (of voices, cries, etc) harshly or hoarsely loud
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Word Origin
C18: from Latin raucus hoarse
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Word Origin and History for raucously
raucous
adj.
1769, from Latin raucus "hoarse" (also source of French rauque, Spanish ronco, Italian rauco), related to ravus "hoarse," from PIE echoic base *reu- "make hoarse cries" (cf. Sanskrit rayati "barks," ravati "roars;" Greek oryesthai "to howl, roar;" Latin racco "a roar;" Old Church Slavonic rjevo "I roar;" Lithuanian rekti "roar;" Old English rarian "to wail, bellow"). Middle English had rauc in the same sense, from the same source.
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