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Obstreperousness

Definition: Obstreperousness

Obstreperousness

Noun

1. Noisy defiance.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "obstreperousness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1853. (references)


Modern Translations: Obstreperousness

Language Translations for "obstreperousness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

Widerspenstigkeit (contrariness, contumacy, intractability, obstinacy, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, stubbornness, unmanageableness, unruliness, willfulness). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

obstreperousnessay

   

Romanian

  

zburdãlnicie (friskiness, frolic, gamboling, mischief, prank, romp, sportiveness, spree, wantonness), neascultare (contempt, contumacy, disobedience, insubordination), indisciplinã (indiscipline). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

шумливість (noisiness), галасливість, буйство (roistering). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tính hay phản đối om sòm tính chất bất trị, tính hay la lối om sòm, tính chất om sòm (vociferousness), tính chất âm ỉ. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Obstreperousness

Derivations

Words beginning with "obstreperousness": obstreperousnesses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Obstreperousness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-e-e-n-o-o-p-r-r-s-s-s-s-t-u"

-4 letters: obstreperous, obtusenesses, porousnesses, robustnesses, superbnesses.

-5 letters: operoseness, prestresses, proestruses, repossessor, sobernesses, superstores.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-e-e-n-o-o-p-r-r-s-s-s-s-t-u"
 

+2 letters: obstreperousnesses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Obstreperousness


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4F 62 73 74 72 65 70 65 72 6F 75 73 6E 65 73 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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