| 单词 |
streperous |
| 释义 |
† ˈstreperous, a. Obs. [f. med.L. streper-us (f. strepĕre to make a noise) + -ous. Cf. obstreperous.] Noisy, harsh-sounding.
1637Heywood Lond. Spec. B 3 b, Triton with his pearly trumpets blew A streperous blast. 1637― Dial. i. 7 He..with a voice strep'rous and loud (That all they in the ship might heare him) vow'd To set before that Saint a waxen Light. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. vi. 100 In a streperous eruption it [the bay-tree] riseth against Fire. 1688Cudworth Immut. Mor. (1731) 182 The streperous Noise of a Single Fiddle. 1822T. Taylor Apuleius ii. 39 Scarcely had the streperous song of the crested cohort proclaimed a truce to night. Hence † ˈstreperously adv., † ˈstreperousness.
1727Bailey vol. II, Streperousness, Noisiness. 1822T. Taylor Apuleius iv. 72 They play clamorously, they sing streperously. |

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