noisily

adverbB1+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #13,302 of 15,258neutral

Noisily means in a way that makes a lot of sound. Ate noisily, protested noisily, noisily celebrating.

It often carries disapproval, since doing anything noisily is doing it in a way somebody objected to. Protesting noisily is the standard phrase for an objection nobody intends to act on.

Definitions of noisily

1adverbnoisilyIn a way that makes a lot of sound.B1+
“The children ran noisily up and down the stairs.”

noisily is a manner.

Where it comes from

From noisy + -ly.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

noisily in the wild

Woodpeckers gained their English name because of the habit of some species of tapping and pecking noisily on tree trunks with their beaks and heads.
Picinae
Adults near the nest fly around, diving at potential predators while calling noisily.
Red-wattled lapwing
A few days later, Davis demanded a public apology, but instead the two officers argued noisily and physically, concluding in Davis mortally wounding Nelson with a pistol.
Jefferson C. Davis
In the present day, it is shaken noisily as if to purify dust, but in ancient ceremonies such as at Kasuga Taisha, it is stroked.
Ōnusa
The adult spends the daylight hours buried in the sand, emerging at night to fly noisily around in search of mates and food.
Pericoptus truncatus

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