obstreperous

obstreperous
    adj 1: noisily and stubbornly defiant; "obstreperous boys"
    2: boisterously and noisily aggressive; "kept up an obstreperous
       clamor"
    

Obstreperous \Ob*strep"er*ous\, a. [L. obstreperus, from
   obstrepere to make a noise at; ob (see {Ob-}) + strepere to
   make a noise.]
   1. Attended by, or making, a loud and tumultuous noise;
      clamorous; noisy; vociferous. "The obstreperous city."
      --Wordsworth. "Obstreperous approbation." --Addison.
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            Beating the air with their obstreperous beaks. --B.
                                                  Jonson.
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   2. Resistant to control; unruly.
      [PJC] -- {Ob*strep"er*ous*ly}, adv. --
      {Ob*strep"er*ous*ness}, n.
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87 Moby Thesaurus words for "obstreperous":
      bawling, beyond control, blaring, blatant, blatting, blustering,
      boanergean, boisterous, brassy, brawling, brazen, breachy, clamant,
      clamorous, clamoursome, clanging, clangorous, clattery,
      contumacious, crying, defiant, disorderly, fractious,
      impatient of control, incorrigible, indocile, indomitable,
      insuppressible, intractable, irrepressible, loud, loudmouthed,
      mafficking, multivocal, naughty, noiseful, noisy, openmouthed,
      ornery, out of control, out of hand, rackety, rambunctious,
      rampant, raucous, recalcitrant, refractory, resistant, resisting,
      restive, revolutionary, riotous, rip-roaring, roisterous, rowdy,
      rumbustious, screaming, shouting, shrewish, strepitant, strepitous,
      strident, tempestuous, terrorist, tumultuous, turbulent,
      unbiddable, unbridled, uncontrollable, uncontrolled, undisciplined,
      ungovernable, unmalleable, unmanageable, unmoldable, unrestrained,
      unruly, unsubmissive, uproarious, vociferant, vociferating,
      vociferous, wild, yammering, yapping, yelling, yelping