Adjective

(en adjective)

Attended by, or making, a loud and tumultuous noise; boisterous.

* 1809 , , Knickerbocker's History of New York , ch. 7:

[O]n a clear still summer evening you may hear from the battery of New York the obstreperous peals of broad-mouthed laughter of the Dutch negroes at Communipaw.

* 1855 , , "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came":

. . . my hope

Dwindled into a ghost not fit to cope

With that obstreperous joy success would bring

* 1918 , , On the Stairs , ch. 3:

He developed an obstreperous baritone . . . and he made himself rather preponderant, whether he happened to know the song or not.

Stubbornly defiant; disobedient; resistant to authority or control, whether in a noisy manner or not.

* 1827 , , The Journal of Sir Walter Scott , October 1827:

[W]e came to Whittingham. Thence to Newcastle, where an obstreperous horse retarded us for an hour at least.

* 1903 , , "A Sandshore Wooing" in Short Stories: 1902-1903 :

My dress was draggled, my hat had slipped back, and the kinks and curls of my obstreperous hair were something awful.

* 1915 , , The Gray Dawn , ch. 70:

They reviled the committee collectively and singly; bragged that they would shoot Coleman, Truett, Durkee, and some others at sight; flourished weapons, and otherwise became so publicly and noisily obstreperous that the committee decided they needed a lesson.

Adjective

(en adjective)

(archaic) Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable; difficult to deal with; with an evil disposition.

* 1592, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew :

Her onely fault, and that is faults enough, / Is, that she is intollerable curst, / And shrow'd, and froward , so beyond all measure, / That were my state farre worser then it is, / I would not wed her for a mine of Gold.

* 1826 , George Crabb

A froward child becomes an untoward youth, who turns a deaf ear to all the admonitions of an afflicted parent.

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