raucousadj.

Brit.

/ˈrɔːkəs/, U.S.

/ˈrɔkəs/,

/ˈrɑkəs/

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin raucus , -ous suffix.

Etymology: < classical Latin raucus hoarse, harsh, raucous ( < ravis hoarseness (probably < the same Indo-European base as classical Latin rūmor : see rumour n.) + -cus , suffix forming adjectives, also found in mancus mank adj.) + -ous suffix. Compare Middle French, French rauque (1377), Old Occitan rauc, Catalan rauc (15th cent.), Portuguese rouco (12th cent.), Italian roco (1347), rauco (1481).Classical Latin ravis ‘hoarseness’ and ravus ‘hoarse’ are very rarely attested (the latter only in an 8th-cent. epitome of a 2nd-cent. grammarian), and were effectively replaced by raucus and its derivatives.

1. Of a sound, esp. a person's voice: hoarse, rough; loud and harsh.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > [adjective] > making harsh or discordant sound

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ganglinga1398

roughlyc1400

rauk?a1425

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hoar?a1505

harsh1530

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jarring1552

jarry1582

barking1589

absonant1600

wrangling1608

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asper1626

streperous1637

scrannel1638

caterwaulinga1652

unmelodious1665

jangling1667

latrant1702

untuneful1709

raucid1730

unharmonious1742

unmelodized1771

unmelodic1823

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raspish1847

serratic1859

jangled1874

jangly1891

amelodic1937

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια vi. xviii. 389 When the parts are abundantly moistned as in destillations & poases, then the sound is raucous or hoarse.

1742 Summer Misc. 48 The grizly Spectre..stood at his Bed's-feet, and rending the affrighted Curtains asunder, in a shrill and raucous Voice thrice shriek'd out, Justice, Justice, Justice.

1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iii. 8 This raucous reptile [sc. the toad].

1793 J. Leslie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Birds VI. 158 A raucous, thick tone, which is grating to the ear.

1831 New Eng. Mag. Sept. 233 Mark his song, which..I can only liken somewhat to that of a robin, with a good deal more depth, fulness and compass, a little raucous withal.

1879 G. A. Sala Paris herself Again II. xxiii. 342 In a raucous strident voice, he sang the songs of divers epochs.

1898 Cosmopolitan Oct. 619/1 The crack of the whip, the hallo and the raucous ‘soo-yah’, sound from everywhere.

1927 V. Woolf To Lighthouse iii. xi. 292 There he was lean and red and raucous, preaching love from a platform.

1961 C. M. Turnbull Forest People iv. 72 Putting his mouth to the end of the trumpet,..he blew a long, raucous raspberry.

2000 Daily Tel. 28 Nov. 27/4 All too often, the voice of reason is hushed into silence by the raucous tones of we politicians or by the partisan scribbling of journalists.

2. Characterized by boisterous or noisy behaviour; rowdy, disorderly, uproarious. Also: garish, obtrusively prominent.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [adjective] > garish

violenta1522

garisha1568

savage1706

raw1763

criard1840

tranchant1841

flagrant1858

blaring1866

criant1876

screamy1882

screaming1883

raucous1919

shrieking1958

shrill1973

the mind > emotion > excitement > excitability of temperament > spiritedness or liveliness > [adjective] > boisterously lively

exuberant?1504

flagartie1535

unsober1542

unstaida1557

coltisha1586

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unsettled1594

untameful1607

tearing1654

boisterousa1683

rackety1773

rumbustiousa1777

ranty1783

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unplacid1825

skylarking1826

fizzy1855

polyphloisboisterousa1875

polyphloisbic1915

raucous1919

boysy1921

bang-about1933

Tigger-like1974

1919 J. Le Gay Brereton Burning Marl 8 The street Where raucous tradesmen grinned and gave and stole.

1944 D. Welch In Youth is Pleasure iv. 57 He thought that there was nothing so bright and smart as a new bicycle. The raucous blue paint stimulated him.

1978 C. Heath Lady on Burning Deck 211 Las Vegas, which I know only from films in which it appears as a place raucous with flashing lights, cheap women and expensive hotels.

2005 Toro Nov. 92/3 Driving the night route famous in Toronto as the ‘vomit comet’, transporting raucous clubgoers north along Yonge Street.

Derivatives

ˈraucously adv.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > [adverb]

rudelya1375

untunably1504

hoarselya1529

jarringly1583

harshly1599

unmusically1609

disharmoniously1664

hoarse1709

unmelodiously1739

unharmoniously1783

raucously1852

raggedly1854

dissonously1866

uneuphoniously1882

untunefully1884

1852 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 72 128 The pawkie proposal is straightway raucously ratified.

1920 F. S. Fitzgerald Flappers & Philosophers (1921) 121 The gravel crunched raucously under his heel.

1997 D. Hansen Sole Survivor iii. 36 The gulls feasted raucously on the guts but he kept the heads and frames to make stock and fish soup.

ˈraucousness n.

ΚΠ

1904 Independent 11 Feb. 326/2 Its performance is to be deplored for..the raucousness of the brass.

1927 Daily Express 21 June 8/5 I see thousands of people striving for..bursts of applause that will only deafen them with their raucousness.

2001 B. A. Joyce Shaping Amer. Ethnogr. iii. 72 Sydney,..infinitely interesting with its contrasts of virtue and vice, genteel hospitality and raucousness.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	raucous
释义	raucousadj. Brit. /ˈrɔːkəs/, U.S. /ˈrɔkəs/, /ˈrɑkəs/ Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin raucus , -ous suffix. Etymology: < classical Latin raucus hoarse, harsh, raucous ( < ravis hoarseness (probably < the same Indo-European base as classical Latin rūmor : see rumour n.) + -cus , suffix forming adjectives, also found in mancus mank adj.) + -ous suffix. Compare Middle French, French rauque (1377), Old Occitan rauc, Catalan rauc (15th cent.), Portuguese rouco (12th cent.), Italian roco (1347), rauco (1481).Classical Latin ravis ‘hoarseness’ and ravus ‘hoarse’ are very rarely attested (the latter only in an 8th-cent. epitome of a 2nd-cent. grammarian), and were effectively replaced by raucus and its derivatives. 1. Of a sound, esp. a person's voice: hoarse, rough; loud and harsh. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > [adjective] > making harsh or discordant sound hoarsec1369 ganglinga1398 roughlyc1400 rauk?a1425 rustyc1430 hask?1440 savagea1450 raw1474 hoar?a1505 harsh1530 untunable1545 jarring1552 jarry1582 barking1589 absonant1600 wrangling1608 raucous1615 asper1626 streperous1637 scrannel1638 caterwaulinga1652 unmelodious1665 jangling1667 latrant1702 untuneful1709 raucid1730 unharmonious1742 unmelodized1771 unmelodic1823 raucal1826 rauque1845 raspish1847 serratic1859 jangled1874 jangly1891 amelodic1937 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια vi. xviii. 389 When the parts are abundantly moistned as in destillations & poases, then the sound is raucous or hoarse. 1742 Summer Misc. 48 The grizly Spectre..stood at his Bed's-feet, and rending the affrighted Curtains asunder, in a shrill and raucous Voice thrice shriek'd out, Justice, Justice, Justice. 1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iii. 8 This raucous reptile [sc. the toad]. 1793 J. Leslie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Birds VI. 158 A raucous, thick tone, which is grating to the ear. 1831 New Eng. Mag. Sept. 233 Mark his song, which..I can only liken somewhat to that of a robin, with a good deal more depth, fulness and compass, a little raucous withal. 1879 G. A. Sala Paris herself Again II. xxiii. 342 In a raucous strident voice, he sang the songs of divers epochs. 1898 Cosmopolitan Oct. 619/1 The crack of the whip, the hallo and the raucous ‘soo-yah’, sound from everywhere. 1927 V. Woolf To Lighthouse iii. xi. 292 There he was lean and red and raucous, preaching love from a platform. 1961 C. M. Turnbull Forest People iv. 72 Putting his mouth to the end of the trumpet,..he blew a long, raucous raspberry. 2000 Daily Tel. 28 Nov. 27/4 All too often, the voice of reason is hushed into silence by the raucous tones of we politicians or by the partisan scribbling of journalists. 2. Characterized by boisterous or noisy behaviour; rowdy, disorderly, uproarious. Also: garish, obtrusively prominent. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [adjective] > garish violenta1522 garisha1568 savage1706 raw1763 criard1840 tranchant1841 flagrant1858 blaring1866 criant1876 screamy1882 screaming1883 raucous1919 shrieking1958 shrill1973 the mind > emotion > excitement > excitability of temperament > spiritedness or liveliness > [adjective] > boisterously lively exuberant?1504 flagartie1535 unsober1542 unstaida1557 coltisha1586 skittisha1592 unsettled1594 untameful1607 tearing1654 boisterousa1683 rackety1773 rumbustiousa1777 ranty1783 polrumptious1787 spanking1801 flisky1807 uproarious1819 unplacid1825 skylarking1826 fizzy1855 polyphloisboisterousa1875 polyphloisbic1915 raucous1919 boysy1921 bang-about1933 Tigger-like1974 1919 J. Le Gay Brereton Burning Marl 8 The street Where raucous tradesmen grinned and gave and stole. 1944 D. Welch In Youth is Pleasure iv. 57 He thought that there was nothing so bright and smart as a new bicycle. The raucous blue paint stimulated him. 1978 C. Heath Lady on Burning Deck 211 Las Vegas, which I know only from films in which it appears as a place raucous with flashing lights, cheap women and expensive hotels. 2005 Toro Nov. 92/3 Driving the night route famous in Toronto as the ‘vomit comet’, transporting raucous clubgoers north along Yonge Street. Derivatives ˈraucously adv. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > [adverb] rudelya1375 untunably1504 hoarselya1529 jarringly1583 harshly1599 unmusically1609 disharmoniously1664 hoarse1709 unmelodiously1739 unharmoniously1783 raucously1852 raggedly1854 dissonously1866 uneuphoniously1882 untunefully1884 1852 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 72 128 The pawkie proposal is straightway raucously ratified. 1920 F. S. Fitzgerald Flappers & Philosophers (1921) 121 The gravel crunched raucously under his heel. 1997 D. Hansen Sole Survivor iii. 36 The gulls feasted raucously on the guts but he kept the heads and frames to make stock and fish soup. ˈraucousness n. ΚΠ 1904 Independent 11 Feb. 326/2 Its performance is to be deplored for..the raucousness of the brass. 1927 Daily Express 21 June 8/5 I see thousands of people striving for..bursts of applause that will only deafen them with their raucousness. 2001 B. A. Joyce Shaping Amer. Ethnogr. iii. 72 Sydney,..infinitely interesting with its contrasts of virtue and vice, genteel hospitality and raucousness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1615
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