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English
Etymology
Modification of obstreperous after words ending in -ulous.
Pronunciation
Adjective
obstropulous (comparative more obstropulous, superlative most obstropulous)
- (UK, obsolete, slang) Synonym of obstreperous
1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa Harlowe, volume IX:And you know, Jack (as we told him, moreover), that it was a shame to manhood, for a man, who had served twenty and twenty women as bad or worse, let him have served Miss Harlowe never so bad, should give himself such obstropulous airs, because she would die […]
1977, Goodbye Mr Grainger (Are You Being Served?), season 5, episode 6, spoken by Mrs Slocombe (Mollie Sugden):He was thoroughly obstropulous to me last week!
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