megalophonous

Strident or pompous in expression; vociferous.

Let the megalophonous grasshopper sound a blast and summon hither the perfunctory and circumforaneous TumbleBug, to the end that excavations may be made and learning gather new treasures.

The world loves wit, but is all aweary of those megalophonous burros who unbraid their ears and bray at men who are striving in all earnestness to solve the industrial problem.

Loud.

The doors were closed against further admissions at 1 A. M., but not before a dozen callow youths had got in, their heads already buzzing with wine and their voices megalophonous with song.

“I hear some hard words passed between you?” “Yes; he called me a megalophonous megalasaurus,^([sic – meaning megalosaurus]) To which I retorted that, in comparison with him, the antediluvian cyclepteridæ would not have been in it