[linux-audio-dev] Re: Behringer

[Mario Lang]

Fons Adriaensen <fons.adriaensen at skynet.be> writes:

> On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 06:12:40PM -0600, Jan Depner wrote:
>
>> I also asked you to not be so obstreperous in your posts.
> --------------------------------^
>
> I really love the sound of that word, but it will cost me
> a new dictionary.

>From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Obstreperous \Ob*strep"er*ous\, a. [L. obstreperus, from
     obstrepere to make a noise at; ob (see {Ob-}) + strepere to
     make a noise.]
     Attended by, or making, a loud and tumultuous noise;
     clamorous; noisy; vociferous. ``The obstreperous city.''
     --Wordsworth. ``Obstreperous approbation.'' --Addison.

           Beating the air with their obstreperous beaks. --B.
                                                    Jonson.
     -- {Ob*strep"er*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Ob*strep"er*ous*ness}, n.

-- 
CYa,
  Mario