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Noisy   /nˈɔɪzi/   Listen
Noisy

adjective
(compar. noisier; superl. noisiest)
1.
Full of or characterized by loud and nonmusical sounds.  "A small noisy dog"  Antonym: quiet.
2.
Attracting attention by showiness or bright colors.






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"Noisy" Quotes from Famous Books



... to ourselves, I have not much to say; we have now a terribly noisy house with the whooping cough, but otherwise are all well. Far the greatest fact about myself is that I have at last quite done with the everlasting barnacles. At the end of the year we had two of our little boys very ill with fever and bronchitis, ...
— The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume I • Francis Darwin

... sunshine and the noisy babble of it! How feverishly she longed for the night, for the shadows in which she could weep, for the darkness in which she could be herself, for the isolation in which she could escape from slavery! It was an entirely new, strange feeling to her. In that simple community; joys and sorrows were ...
— A Daughter of Fife • Amelia Edith Barr

... —Moving is noisy; I can't complain. I have been walking about the streets. I am hungry for the work; but still, I had much to think of. It is a wonderful thing—a glorious thing, this story—it will make men's ...
— The Journal of Arthur Stirling - "The Valley of the Shadow" • Upton Sinclair

... steps into the street, followed by Combrisson. They were both shouting and gesticulating loudly, and Combrisson seemed to be demanding money which the other refused. A few passers-by stopped to listen to the two foreigners, who danced around, growing ever more noisy; but Limpet and O'Brien stood firm. They looked at the combatants, but seemed to consider the matter as a joke, and only crossed over to our side of the way when they saw a crowd begin to assemble. The quarrel between Combrisson ...
— A Girl Among the Anarchists • Isabel Meredith

... very much one of them. I was a center and sometimes the leader of the town gang of boys. We were noisy, but never very bad,—and, indeed, my mother's quiet influence came in here, as I realize now. She did not try to make me perfect. To her I was already perfect. She simply warned me of a few things, especially saloons. In my town the saloon was the open door to hell. The best families ...
— Darkwater - Voices From Within The Veil • W. E. B. Du Bois


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