boistous
English
Alternative forms
- boystous
Etymology
From Middle English boistous, from Anglo-Norman bustous (“rough”), perhaps from Old French boitous (“noisy”) (the source of French boiteux).
Adjective
boistous (comparative more boistous, superlative most boistous)
- (obsolete, Early Modern) Coarse, rude; noisy, violent; strong.
- 1552, Thomas Churchyard, A playn and fynall confutacion: Of cammells corlyke oblatracion, page [1]:
- The tune wherof semes yet full straunge, so boystous is the blast: / but quiet calmes settes forth still windes, when stormes be gon and past.
- 1560, The Knight of the Swanne, folio 33v:
- And whan he was comen to the gate of the palais he mette firste with a boistous churle that rigorousli axed hĩ what he sought there?
- 1567, Ovid, “The Tenth Booke”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […], →OCLC, folio 126, verso:
- And therewithall shee thought / The same to bee a shape ryght meete uppon them to bee brought: / And so shee from theyr myghty limbes theyr native figure tooke, / And turnd them into boystous Bulles with grim and cruell looke.
Related terms
- boisterous
- boistously
- boistousness
Further reading
- “boistous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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