Meanings
comparative more streperous · superlative most streperous
- archaicloud; boisterous
streperous carriage
1617, Francis Bacon, letter to the King2 more examples
And though Porta conceive, becauſe in a ſtreperous eruption, it riſeth against fire it doth therefore reſiſt lightning, yet is that no emboldning Illation
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC"I war jest a-countin' ob dem jailbirds, an' had 'rived at 'leven w'en a 'streperous root she keeled me ober.
1911, Quincy Allen, The Outdoor Chums, Chapter 6
Origin
- Latinstreperus
- Englishstreperous
From Latin streperus, from strepere. See strepent, and compare obstreperous.
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