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boystrous

boystrous is the obsolete spelling of boisterous.

Meaning of boisterous

Adjective

boisterous (comparative more boisterous, superlative most boisterous)

  1. Full of energy; exuberant; noisy.
    • Open carriages tend to be draughty and inadequately heated. The passenger in them has no escape from the annoyance of squalling babies, boisterous drunks, and riotous teddy-boys, who may be at the far end of the coach but whose din cannot be shut out.1959 February, “Letters to the Editor: Open-Type Coaches on B.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 135
  2. Characterized by violence and agitation; wild; stormy.
    • ſtaggering like a quiuering Aſpen leafe,
      Fearing the force of Boreas boiſtrous blaſts.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
  3. Having or resembling animalic exuberance.

Forms of boystrous

comparativemore boystrous
superlativemost boystrous

Words formed from boystrous

  • boystrously

Questions about boystrous

What is boystrous the obsolete spelling of?
Boystrous is the obsolete spelling of boisterous.

Words near boystrous in the dictionary

  1. boyslash
  2. boysmell
  3. boysober
  4. boysterous
  5. Boystown
  6. boystrous
  7. Boysverse
  8. boyswear
  9. boysweat
  10. boysy
  11. Boyt

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Adapted from Wiktionary: boystrous (page history and authors); boisterous (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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