RAUCOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does raucous mean? 

• RAUCOUS (adjective)
  The adjective RAUCOUS has 2 senses:

1. unpleasantly loud and harsh

2. disturbing the public peace; loud and rough

  Familiarity information: RAUCOUS used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAUCOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unpleasantly loud and harsh

Synonyms:

raucous; strident

Similar:

cacophonic; cacophonous (having an unpleasant sound)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Disturbing the public peace; loud and rough

Synonyms:

raucous; rowdy

Context example:

rowdy teenagers

Similar:

disorderly (undisciplined and unruly)

 Context examples 

And he could not help but contrast it with the weak pipings and shrill quaverings of factory girls, ill-nourished and untrained, and with the raucous shriekings from gin-cracked throats of the women of the seaport towns.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)