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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
boisterous/ˈbɔɪstərəs/
▶adjective
- 1 noisy, energetic, and cheerful.
- 2 (of weather or water) wild or stormy.
– derivatives
boisterously adverb,
boisterousness noun.
boisterously adverb,
boisterousness noun.
– origin ME (in the sense ‘rough, stiff’): var. of earlier boistuous ‘rustic, coarse, boisterous’.
'boisterous' also found in these Oxford entries:
high jinks
- horseplay
- hoyden
- hurly-burly
- jamboree
- larrikin
- roister
- rootin' tootin'
- rorty
- rough
- rumbustious
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