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raucity

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rau⋅cous

  [raw-kuhs]
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–adjective
1. harsh; strident; grating: raucous voices; raucous laughter.
2. rowdy; disorderly: a raucous party.
Origin:
1760–70; < L raucus hoarse, harsh, rough; see -ous

Related forms:
rau⋅cous⋅ly, adverb
rau⋅cous⋅ness, rau⋅ci⋅ty  [raw-si-tee] , noun

Synonyms:
1. rough, jarring, raspy.

Antonyms:
1. soft, mellow, dulcet.
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rau·cous   (rô'kəs)   
adj.  

  1. Rough-sounding and harsh: raucous laughter.

  2. Boisterous and disorderly: "the raucous give and take of American democracy" (Charles Kuralt).


[From Latin raucus.]
rau'cous·ly adv., rau'cous·ness, rau'ci·ty (rô'sĭ-tē) n.
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Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

raucous 
1769, from L. raucus "hoarse," related to ravus "hoarse," from PIE echoic base *reu- "make hoarse cries" (cf. Skt. rayati "barks," ravati "roars;" Gk. oryesthai "to howl, roar;" L. racco "a roar;" O.C.S. rjevo "I roar;" Lith. rekti "roar;" O.E. rarian "to wail, bellow"). M.E. had rauc, in the same sense, from the same source.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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