noise-makern.
/ˈnɔɪzˌmeɪkə/, U.S. /ˈnɔɪzˌmeɪkər/ 1. A loud or noisy person or thing; spec. a device (as a klaxon, rattle, etc.) used to make noise, esp. at a celebration.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > [noun] > loud sound or noise > person
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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Judith xiv. 9 That not of the rereres, but of the noise makeris Olofernes shulde waken.
1574 Howse in Hist. Family Fortescue (1869) II. 231 They found nobody there, for the noise-makers were gone back.
1681 T. Otway Souldiers Fortune ii. 22 He has been a great noise-maker in factious Clubs these seven years.
1815 T. Moore Mem. (1853) II. 78 Among chatterers, drinkers, and all sorts of noise-makers.
1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Noisemaker,..any of several devices, as a horn, clapper, a razzle-dazzle, for making noise at celebrations, etc.
1966 R. H. Rimmer Harrad Exper. (1967) 94 Someone whirled me around and blew a noisemaker in my face.
1991 R. Reiner Chief Constables iv. xi. 262 They have a view about these loud noise-makers, particularly these politicians, local as well as national.
2. Navy. A device towed behind a submarine as a decoy to divert acoustically guided torpedoes.
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1946 Nature 14 Sept. 366/1 We knew this as ‘GNAT’, and it was countered by a ship towing an artificial noise-maker called the ‘Foxer’ which attracted the torpedo and caused it to pass harmlessly astern.
1986 T. Clancy Red Storm Rising (1988) xxiii. 346 The submarine loosed a noisemaker, but it malfunctioned.
1995 Jrnl. Electronics Def, (Nexis) Apr. 46 Submarine noise-makers designed to decoy incoming torpedos.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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