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

(er)

(of a sound) Of great intensity.

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Noisy.

* Bible, Proverbs vii. 11

She is loud and stubborn.

Not subtle or reserved, brash.

Having unpleasantly and tastelessly contrasting colours or patterns; gaudy.