raucous

  • 11raucous — adjective Etymology: Latin raucus hoarse; akin to Latin ravis hoarseness Date: 1769 1. disagreeably harsh or strident ; hoarse < raucous voices > 2. boisterously disorderly < a…raucous frontier town Truman Capote > Synonyms: see loud • rauc …

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  • 12raucous — adjective /ˈrɔːkəs,ˈrɔkəs,ˈrɑkəs/ a) Harsh and rough sounding. At night, raucous sounds come from the swamp. b) Disorderly and boisterous. Acts of vandalism were committed by a raucous gang of drunkards. Syn: rowdy …

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  • 13raucous — adjective a raucous voice is unpleasantly loud: raucous shouts from the street raucously adverb: They laughed raucously. raucousness noun (U) …

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  • 14raucous — adjective 1) raucous laughter Syn: harsh, strident, screeching, piercing, shrill, grating, discordant, dissonant; noisy, loud, cacophonous Ant: soft, dulcet 2) …

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  • 15raucous — UK [ˈrɔːkəs] / US [ˈrɔkəs] adjective 1) rude, noisy, and violent a raucous gang of teenagers 2) a raucous voice or noise is loud and sounds rough Derived word: raucously adverb …

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  • 16raucous — rau•cous [[t]ˈrɔ kəs[/t]] adj. 1) harsh; strident: raucous laughter[/ex] 2) cvb rowdy; disorderly: a raucous party[/ex] • Etymology: 1760–70; &LT; L raucus hoarse, harsh, rough; see ous rau′cous•ly, adv. rau′cous•ness, n …

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  • 17raucous — adj. Raucous is used with these nouns: ↑din, ↑laughter …

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  • 18raucous — [ˈrɔːkəs] adj a raucous voice is loud and sounds rough raucously adv …

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  • 19Raucous Records — Infobox record label founded = 2001 founder = distributor = genre = Rockabilly, Psychobilly, Rock and roll, Surf music country = United Kingdom location = Lancashire url = http://www.raucousrecords.com/Raucous Records is a British record label&#8230; …

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  • 20raucous — Synonyms and related words: absonant, atonal, boisterous, brassy, brazen, brusque, cacophonous, choked, coarse, cracked, croaking, croaky, diaphonic, disconsonant, discordant, disharmonic, disharmonious, disorderly, dissonant, dry, ear splitting …

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