Meanings (ES + gloss)
estrepitoso
Stubbornly defiant; disobedient; resistant to authority or control (whether in a noisy manner or not).
My dress was draggled, my hat had slipped back, and the kinks and curls of my obstreperous hair were something awful.
[W]e came to Whittingham. Thence to Newcastle, where an obstreperous horse retarded us for an hour at least.
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