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riotous (adj.)
mid-14c., "troublesome, wanton, extravagant," from Old French
riotos
"argumentative, quarrelsome," from
riote
(see
riot
(n.)). Meaning "tumultuous, turbulent" is mid-15c. Related:
Riotously
;
riotousness
.