obstropulous

comparative more obstropulous · superlative most obstropulous · alternative obstropalous · alternative obstropolous

1. UKobsoleteslangSynonym of obstreperous.

   He was thoroughly obstropulous to me last week!

   1977, Goodbye Mr Grainger (Are You Being Served?), season 5, episode 6, spoken by Mrs Slocombe (Mollie Sugden)

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   And you know, Jack (as we told him, moreover), that it was a shame to manhood, for a man, who had served twenty and twenty women as bad or worse, let him have served Miss Harlowe never so bad, should give himself such obstropulous airs, because she would die […]

   1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa Harlowe, volume IX

   Synonyms: obstreperous