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boisterously en · ADV

Pronunciation

• /ˈbɔɪstɹəsli/
• /ˈbɔɪstəɹəsli/
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Etymology

Etymology tree English boisterous Middle English -ly English -ly English boisterously From boisterous + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a boisterous manner, energetically and noisily.
   • A month earlier, we would have been shocked if a onehanded, fifty-four-year-old Norwegian fisherman had hailed us boisterously from the end of his wharf, but as we'd traveled north, we'd found the country less developed and less populated, and its people more outgoing. 2002, Jill Fredston, Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge, →ISBN:
   • Such indiscriminating stuff is difficult to treat as it deserves, because it is such a mixture of truth and nonsense (Miss Rehan, for instance, is clever in Katharine and boisterously bellowsome in Julia), but it may serve to emphasize the necessity of providing somewhere in newspaper offices for the education of critics in the fundamentals of the arts they profess to understand. 1894, Werner's Magazine, volumes 15-16, page 319:
   • The Wuhan forces had won the battle at Chumatien (the victory Tom Mann had so boisterously celebrated) but, as those back in Wuhan subsequently found out, only at a terrible cost. [1981, Dan N. Jacobs, “Going Home”, in Borodin: Stalin's Man in China, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 272:
   • The best of the joke, too, is, that the very coal-merchant who is loudest in his complaints against the person who defrauded him, is the identical man who sat in the centre of the very front row of the pit last night and laughed the most boisterously at this very same thing,--and not so well done either. 1837, Charles Dickens, The Pantomime of Life:

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Synonyms

robustiously