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raucous, a.|ˈrɔːkəs|
[f. L. rauc-us hoarse + -ous.]
Hoarse, rough, harsh-sounding.
1769Pennant British Zool. III. 8 This raucous reptile [the toad]. 1793tr. Buffon's Hist. Birds VI. 158 A raucous, thick tone, which is grating to the ear. 1847Emerson Poems (1857) 40 Where yon wedged line the Nestor leads, Steering north with raucous cry. 1879Sala Paris Herself Again (1880) II. xxiii. 342 In a raucous strident voice, he sang the songs of divers epochs.
Hence ˈraucously adv., in a raucous manner.
1852Blackw. Mag. LXXII. 128 The pawkie proposal is straightway raucously ratified. |