a-riotadv.
/əˈrʌɪət/ In riot, riotously, running riot.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > [adverb] > riotously
riotously?1435
tempestuously1447
riotibly1509
royetously1536
tumultuously1548
disorderly1564
disorderously1579
turbulently1602
tumultuarily1609
routously1615
uproarishly1647
unguidedly1660
mobbishly1716
a-riot1834
rumbustiously1840
riotingly1846
1834 M. Howitt Sketches Nat. Hist. 14 Till the Parrots, all a-riot, Chattered too to keep you quiet.
1881 Cornhill Mag. Mar. 310 The rose-trees..have gone wandering a-riot into country hedges.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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