What does the word raucous mean?
1 : disagreeably harsh or strident : hoarse raucous voices. 2 : boisterously disorderly a …
How do you pronounce raucous?
How do you use raucous in a sentence?
The chair behind her knees scraped on the floor with a raucous metallic sound, and she winced.
- He burst into raucous laughter .
- I heard the raucous call of the crows.
- I heard sounds of raucous laughter upstairs.
What is the root of raucous?
“hoarse, harsh or croaking in sound,” 1769, with -ous + Latin raucus “hoarse” (also source of French rauque, Spanish ronco, Italian rauco), from or related to ravus “hoarse,” from Proto-Italic *rawo-, from PIE echoic base *reu- “to roar, make hoarse cries” (source also of Sanskrit rayati “barks,” ravati “roars;” Greek