Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A vulgar corruption of obstreperous.
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- adjective
obstreperous
Etymologies
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Examples
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Waddle, the pedlar, has not got up in a dream and done it, for I heard him very obstropulous in his sleep, Sure I put a chamberpot under his bed!
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You always was a squeamish, obstropulous little thing, Ellen.
Joanna Godden Sheila Kaye-Smith 1921
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"Well, Miss Lily was mighty obstropulous 'istiddy, but she is mo' cancelized dis mornin '."
The Speaker, No. 5: Volume II, Issue 1 December, 1906. Various 1904
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"Well, Miss Lily was mighty obstropulous 'istiddy, but she is mo' cancelized dis mornin '."
Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886
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I did fear they would be rash and obstropulous, but didn't think they'd gone so far.
Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia William Gilmore Simms 1838
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"I'll be hanged, said she," if Sawney Waddle, the pedlar, has not got up in a dream and done it, for I heard him very obstropulous in his sleep, Sure I put a chamberpot under his bed!
The Adventures of Roderick Random Tobias George Smollett 1746
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"Maybe my pulse is obstropulous, an 'ought to be sedated down.
Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886
minerva commented on the word obstropulous
OBSTROPULOUS, adj. (vulgar).—A corruption of obstreperous.
January 1, 2008