loudsome

English

Etymology

From loud +‎ -some.

Adjective

loudsome (comparative more loudsome, superlative most loudsome)

  1. (chiefly poetic) Characterised or marked by loudness; noisy
    • 1988, Richard Outram, Hiram and Jenny:
      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, [...]
    • 2009, Clyde A. Milner II, ‎Carol A. O'Connor, As Big as the West:
      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].”
    • 2012, Roy Kerr, Buck Ewing:
      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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