Obstreperous

First attested circa 17th century, from Latin obstreperus "clamorous, noisy," from obstrepere, "to make a noise against, oppose noisily," from ob-, "against" + strepere, "to noise."

Full definition of obstreperous

1809, Washington Irving, Knickerbocker's History of New York, ch. 7:On a clear still summer evening you may hear from the battery of New York the obstreperous peals of broad-mouthed laughter of the Dutch negroes at Communipaw.
1855, Robert Browning, "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came":. . . my hopeDwindled into a ghost not fit to copeWith that obstreperous joy success would bring
1918, Henry B. Fuller, On the Stairs, ch. 3:He developed an obstreperous baritone . . . and he made himself rather preponderant, whether he happened to know the song or not.

Stubbornly defiant; disobedient; resistant to authority or control, whether in a noisy manner or not.

1827, Walter Scott, The Journal of Sir Walter Scott, October 1827:We came to Whittingham. Thence to Newcastle, where an obstreperous horse retarded us for an hour at least.
1903, Lucy Maud Montgomery, "A Sandshore Wooing" in Short Stories: 1902-1903:My dress was draggled, my hat had slipped back, and the kinks and curls of my obstreperous hair were something awful.
1915, Stewart Edward White, The Gray Dawn, ch. 70:They reviled the committee collectively and singly; bragged that they would shoot Coleman, Truett, Durkee, and some others at sight; flourished weapons, and otherwise became so publicly and noisily obstreperous that the committee decided they needed a lesson.