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obstreperous
adjective
noisy, clamorous, or boisterous.
More about obstreperous
Obstreperous 鈥渘oisy, clamorous鈥� comes straight from the Latin adjective obstreperus, a derivative of the verb obstrepere 鈥渢o make (a loud) noise against.鈥� Obstrepere is a compound of the preposition and prefix ob, ob– 鈥渢oward, against鈥� and the simple verb strepere 鈥渢o make a loud noise (of any kind), shout confusedly, clamor.鈥� The facetious, almost comic adjective obstropolous, in existence since the first half of the 18th century, is a variant of obstreperous. Unfortunately there is no further etymology for strepere. Obstreperous entered English at the beginning of the 17th century.
how is obstreperous used?
I could not have been the only one in that obstreperous crowd, made up overwhelmingly of Michiganders, to know the presumably important fact that, well鈥�those car plants听didn鈥檛 exist.
For one critic, the final movement [of Beethoven’s Ninth] was sometimes 鈥渆xceedingly imposing and effective鈥� but its 鈥淪zforzandos, Crescendos, Accelerandos, and many other Os鈥� would 鈥渃all up from their peaceful graves鈥� Handel and Mozart, to witness and deplore the obstreperous roarings of modern frenzy in their art鈥�.
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imagineer
noun
a person who is skilled in implementing creative ideas into practical form.
More about imagineer
There must be many millions of people who watched the TV show The Mickey Mouse Club, which began airing in 1955, and these same fans of The Mickey Mouse Club may also associate the word imagineer with the designers of Walt Disney鈥檚 theme parks (the original Disneyland opened in Anaheim, California, in 1955). Imagineer, a blend of imagine and engineer, however, predates Disneyland by a good dozen years, first appearing in print on 1 June 1942, just before the Battle of Midway, in the very darkest days of World War II, in an upbeat advertisement, 鈥淧ostwar America 鈥� will be a great day for Imagineers.鈥�
how is imagineer used?
those who have followed this major imagineer since early baroque efforts like 鈥淰eniss Underground鈥� and 鈥淪hriek: An Afterword,鈥� or who know his lavish craft guide, 鈥淲onderbook鈥� … won鈥檛 find Aurora and its denizens to be such a departure.
Bernie and Connie Karl are imagineers who make good things happen in Fairbanks and throughout the state of Alaska.
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willyard
adjective
Scot. and North England.
obstinate; willful.
More about willyard
Willyard (also spelled willyart) 鈥渙bstinate, willful鈥� is yet another Scots word designed to confound the English. Even the first syllable, will-, is misleading: it is not the English auxiliary verb will, used, for example, to form the future tense; nor is it the English noun will “the mental faculty, desire, purpose”; it is from the Old Norse adjective villr (stem vill-) 鈥渨ild, false, bewildered, erring, perplexed, uncertain.鈥� The second syllable, –yard or –yart, is anybody鈥檚 guess. Robert Burns uses the word once, 鈥淏ut, O! for Hogarth’s magic pow’r, / To shew Sir Bardie’s willyart glowr鈥� (1786), which guarantees the word鈥檚 survival; Sir Walter Scott also used the word in his Heart of Mid-Lothian (1818). Willyard entered English toward the end of the 16th century.
how is willyard used?
“Uh! uh! uh!” ejaculated Dumbiedikes, as he checked the hobbling pace of the pony by our friend Butler. “Uh! uh! it’s a hard-set willyard beast this o’ mine.”
His disposition resembled that of the famous animal who carried Dumbiedikes so long and so well, but of whom Jeanie Deans remarked that he was听willyard.
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