aroar
adj/əˈɹɔː(ɹ)/
Etymology From a- + roar.
1
Abounding with noise; abounding with laughter.
- Her quip set the dinner table aroar.
- […] scarcely five minutes had passed since Captain Ransome’s guns had broken the truce of doubt before the whole region was aroar: the enemy had attacked nearly everywhere.1893, Ambrose Bierce, “One Kind of Officer”, in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, and Other Stories, page 90:
2 more examples
- The great room, ordinarily aroar with life, was still and gloomy as a tomb.1903, Jack London, “Too Much Gold”, in The Faith of Men, and Other Stories, New York: Macmillan, page 105:
- A ground swell set in; the beach was aroar with incoming waves;1956, Yukio Mishima, chapter 8, in Meredith Weatherby, transl., The Sound of Waves, Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, page 64: