Meanings
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of obstreperate
Thump—thump—thump—obstreperated the abbess of Andoüillets with the end of her gold-headed cane against the bottom of the calesh———
1765, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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