Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being boisterous; rough, noisy behavior; turbulence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being boisterous; turbulence; disorder; tumultuousness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The characteristic of being
boisterous .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a turbulent and stormy state of the sea
- noun the property of being noisy and lively and unrestrained
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Examples
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Covering women in the name of religious piety is anathema to the heart of France's libidinous boisterousness, which is rooted in the rejection of publicly religious declarations regardless of religion.
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He has an agreeable kind of boisterousness, also, that should be fun to dance to.
NewMusicBox 2009
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He looks like a Weeble and his unstoppable boisterousness keeps him always on the verge of falling down.
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In Beethoven's Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 44, the trio contrasted the music's delicacy with sheer boisterousness.
Emerson opens string quartet festival with well-played Schonberg Post 2011
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He often got chastised by other parents for things like pushing another child off the sandbox ledge in a moment of exuberance, although he did it not from anger but out of boisterousness.
Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011
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In Beethoven's Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 44, the trio contrasted the music's delicacy with sheer boisterousness.
Emerson opens string quartet festival with well-played Schonberg Post 2011
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Clearly their boisterousness was meant to impress the girl.
Still Life Jack Swenson 2011
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There's inter-band boisterousness, earlobe-biting, plenty of "gruelling" press interviews, and some genuinely touching footage of the band trying to cover up Dougie's post-break-up Priory stint.
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In the video, a Jets fan gets hauled out of the Charger stadium, apparently for too much boisterousness in favor of the visiting team.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Internet Out in Front? Or All Alone? 2010
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I tire of the labour of thinking, and, when the table is finished, start practical jokes and set all playing at games, which we carry on with bucolic boisterousness.
Chapter 37 2010
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