What is "raucous"

Usage examples of "raucous".

MacInnes strode forward to receive the raucous greeting and Abigail watched the reunion with a touch of envy.

It was a raucous howl of execration, a bellow of rage, inarticulate, deafening.

Justin and Gribble quailed before his raucous, righteous anger and authority.

You should be in a ballroom with crystal chandeliers, drinking wine, and dancing to orchestra music, not in a gaudy honky tonk, drinking beer and listening to obscene shouts and the raucous music of a loud five-piece band.

Overhead, a kookaburra let loose with a burst of raucous laughter, mocking her efforts.

Meanwhile, a calico cat named Kumquat, then a small black and white mutt named Boots, and finally an only somewhat raucous green parrot named Hector, had been added to the family, at which point the house no longer felt too big.

Above the swept marble stair, the copper-leafed doors of the council hall stood closed and latched behind guards in red-and-gold livery who held back the crowding, raucous throng which loitered to stare and speculate.

She wrote that Levet had lain on his back for some hours, but, judging from the raucous singing that accompanied his eventual descent of the cellar steps, had returned none the worse for wear.

As soon as vivid dawn brought raucous, screaming wakefulness to the jungle, Lok continued toward the land of his tribe.

Gar-Terrayen Jellfte, Duke of Lyff, Physician to the King and Sponsor Appointant of the Guild of Healers, was roused from his comfortable dreams at a Mother-lorn late hour by a raucous and unseemly clamor at his front door.

Raucous laughter rolled down the deck, and Muktar followed close behind the sound of his merriment.

Intermixed were vendors of all kinds, and swarms of maids shouting the virtues of the Houses in versions of pithy, raucous pidgin, and sounding over everything the happy banter of potential customers, most of whom were recognized and had their favored places.

Here the Yoshiwara seemed to be slumbering, but not far away the houses and bars on Main Street were bubbling, the night young with the noise of men laughing and raucous singing, the occasional twang of samisen and laughter and pidgin mixed with it.

At Division Headquarters two miles in the rear, a liaison captain with the G3 section boldly concluded that it was just a ruse to get rear echelon soldiers to go to the front lines where they would be greeted by the raucous razzberries of the infantrymen and maybe an unfriendly sniper bullet or two.

Around them were the ordinary daylight sounds of the forest, to which they were now so accustomed--the raucous cries of birds, the terrific booming of siamang gibbons, the chattering of the lesser simians--but no sound came from the tiger.