noisemaker

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a device (such as a clapper or bell or horn) used to make a loud noise at a celebration

From noise + maker.

Call off your noisemakers and toss the Head Steward a thought. — The Big Fix, George O. (George Oliver) Smith
The most successful of these noisemakers are still shouting, but their heart is in it no longer. — The best short stories of 1920, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown
The everlasting roll-call, the record of tardiness and absence, the eye forever on the watch to see who is whispering, the ear forever on the alert to catch the scraper of feet, the mischievous disturber, the irrepressible noisemaker; with such a divided and subdivided attention, how is it possible to teach? — Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre, Voltairine De Cleyre

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