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If someone is obstreperous, they are loud and they will not do what you ask. It is not only noisy: there is a stubborn, hard-to-handle feeling in it. People use it of children who will not sit still, of someone drunk making a scene, or of a crowd that will not quiet down. It is a rather , old-fashioned word — you meet it in novels and in slightly joking grown-up speech more than in the playground. Calling a toddler obstreperous is often half-fond, half-tired. Calling a colleague obstreperous is not a compliment.
喧鬧不聽話的；吵鬧難管的
組成Borrowed from Latin obstreperus (from about the 1600s). The Latin is built from ob- (“against”) and a verb for making a noise.
同家族的字
- obstreperouslythe adverb — doing something in this noisy, stubborn way
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
obstreperousadj/əbˈstɹɛp.əɹ.əs/
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Attended by, or making, a loud and tumultuous noise; boisterous.
- [O]n a clear still summer evening you may hear from the battery of New York the obstreperous peals of broad-mouthed laughter of the Dutch negroes at Communipaw.
- This disposition his subsequent life had not tended to change in any considerable degree, though increased knowledge, with much observation, and a little reading, had rendered the gaiety of the young man a very different thing to the obstreperous mirth of the boy.
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Stubbornly defiant; disobedient; resistant to authority or control (whether in a noisy manner or not).
- [W]e came to Whittingham. Thence to Newcastle, where an obstreperous horse retarded us for an hour at least.
- My dress was draggled, my hat had slipped back, and the kinks and curls of my obstreperous hair were something awful.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。