Usually means: Loud, energetic, and wildly noisy.
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  1. boistous: Wordnik
  2. boistous: Wiktionary
  3. Boistous: Dictionary.com
  4. Boistous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. boistous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Boistous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. boistous: FreeDictionary.org
  8. Boistous: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  (obsolete, Early Modern) Coarse, rude; noisy, violent; strong.

Similar:
rugged, boorish, brockish, boarish, barbarous, blockish, brute, brawly, brutish, brawned, more...

Opposite:
calm, quiet, peaceful, subdued, gentle

Types:
rowdy, raucous, unruly, brawling, rampant, feral, revelrous, more...

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Similar:
rugged, boorish, brockish, boarish, barbarous, blockish, brute, brawly, brutish, brawned, more...

Opposite:
calm, quiet, peaceful, subdued, gentle

Types:
rowdy, raucous, unruly, brawling, rampant, feral, revelrous, more...



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