loudsome

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Characterised or marked by loudness

   Characterised or marked by loudness; noisy

   • But from his frequent dreams, / whether he tumbles with wet women, / rude and loudsome and joyous, / or walks strait through the door left ajar into the severed light, [...]
   • The next day, Andrew Fergus noted that “Eight scouts went down as far as B's woodyard & 7 of us kept camp quiet loudsome [sic].”
   • A happy man is the base ball star, / Who has good eyes and whose foot is fleet: / It's luck he isn't driving a car / Through the loudsome smells of a crosstown street.

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