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RAUCOUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does raucous mean?
• RAUCOUS (adjective)
The adjective RAUCOUS has 2 senses:
1. unpleasantly loud and harsh
2. disturbing the public peace; loud and rough
Familiarity information: RAUCOUS used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Unpleasantly loud and harsh
Synonyms:
raucous; strident
Similar:
cacophonic; cacophonous (having an unpleasant sound)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Disturbing the public peace; loud and rough
Synonyms:
raucous; rowdy
Context example:
rowdy teenagers
Similar:
disorderly (undisciplined and unruly)
Context examples
And he could not help but contrast it with the weak pipings and shrill quaverings of factory girls, ill-nourished and untrained, and with the raucous shriekings from gin-cracked throats of the women of the seaport towns.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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