11 December 2017
raucous
[raw-kuh s]
adjective
1. harsh; strident; grating:
raucous voices; raucous laughter.
2. rowdy; disorderly:
a raucous party.
Origin of raucous
Latin
1760-1770; < Latin raucus hoarse, harsh, rough; see -ous
Related forms
raucously, adverb
raucousness, raucity [raw-si-tee] (Show IPA), noun
Synonyms
1. rough, jarring, raspy.
Antonyms
1. soft, mellow, dulcet.
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Examples from the Web for raucous
Contemporary Examples
An hour-and-a-half of pure, raucous, profanity-fueled laughter: what a perfect edition of Fashion Police aired on E!
Melissa Rivers: Life After Joan—A Funny, Moving Celebration on a Special ‘Fashion Police’
Tim Teeman
September 19, 2014
Actually, the scene was so darned enthusiastic that it began to look a little like a raucous Walmart employee rally.
Diane Sawyer’s Swan Song: ‘ABC World News’ Anchor’s Warm (and Long) Goodbye
Lloyd Grove
August 27, 2014
Then 45 years old, Robert Foligny Broussard was a raucous and charismatic Democrat from New Iberia, Louisiana.
Lake Bacon: The Story of The Man Who Wanted Us to Eat Mississippi Hippos
Jon Mooallem
August 9, 2014
At first it was raucous, trembling with patriotism, a sea of seething yellow.
Germany Humiliates World Cup Host Brazil 7-1 in Semifinal Slaughter
Tunku Varadarajan
July 7, 2014
So raucous did the celebration get that City Tavern took the unusual step of sending along a bill for “breakage.”
Life, Liberty, and the Founding Fathers’ Pursuit of Hoppiness
Kevin Bleyer
July 3, 2014
Historical Examples
“Cottonton” was a mass of frantic arms, raucous voices, white faces.
Garrison’s Finish
W. B. M. Ferguson
For a while, Oliver Symmes heard the raucous music of the crowd.
Life Sentence
James McConnell
His voice was so deep and raucous that it seemed to jar the soles of her feet.
The Nebuly Coat
John Meade Falkner
They roared the raucous song of freedom, and faster and faster they charged.
The Trail of ’98
Robert W. Service
Cochran’s voice rose above the clamor of the room in a raucous whoop.
Terry
Charles Goff Thomson
Today’s quote
I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one ‘race’ – the human race – and that we are all members of it.
– Margaret Atwood
On this day
11 December 1941 – Hitler and Mussolini declare war on the United States. The USA responds in kind.
11 December 1946 – establishment of UNICEF (United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund) to provide food and healthcare to children in countries devastated by World War II.
11 December 1918 – birthday of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian dissident writer, ‘The Gulag Archipelago‘, ‘One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich‘, ‘The First Circle‘. Died 3 August 2008.
11 December 1961 – America’s first direct involvement in the Vietnam civil war, when a US aircraft carrier arrives in Saigon.
11 December 1975 – The Cod War in Iceland continues when an Iceland gun boat fires on unarmed British fishing vessels. Iceland had expanded its fishing zone from 50nm to 200nm from its coast.
11 December 1979 – The Rhodesian government returns power of the country to Great Britain until democratic elections are held. Following the elections, Rhodesia is renamed Zimbabwe.
11 December 1997 – The Kyoto Protocol is agreed to by 150 countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to combat anthropogenic global warming.