raucous, a.
(ˈrɔːkəs)
[f. L. rauc-us hoarse + -ous.]
Hoarse, rough, harsh-sounding.
| 1769 Pennant British Zool. III. 8 This raucous reptile [the toad]. 1793 tr. Buffon's Hist. Birds VI. 158 A raucous, thick tone, which is grating to the ear. 1847 Emerson Poems (1857) 40 Where yon wedged line the Nestor leads, Steering north with raucous cry. 1879 Sala Paris Herself Again (1880) II. xxiii. 342 In a raucous strident voice, he sang the songs of divers epochs. |
Hence ˈraucously adv., in a raucous manner.
| 1852 Blackw. Mag. LXXII. 128 The pawkie proposal is straightway raucously ratified. |