Stubbornly Defiant

It started out innocently enough, with my office mate asking me if I was trying to keep him on his toes.  "I'm just being obstreperous," I said.  And I wasn't even really being obstreperous. "Ubstep-whaterous?"  he said, and then went to his dictionary. Obstreperous: noisily boisterous, stubbornly defiant.  It's the defiantly stubborn part that my mother always berated me about when she called me obstreperous (only occasionally was I noisily boisterous) but the definition has expanded over the years to mean, in general, that I'm being annoying. 

Me?  Annoying??

So anyway, he took this word to heart, told it to another co-worker, who was going to use it on her daughter, and so I guess I've kind of let the cat out of the bag.  Or the word out of the dictionary.  Furthermore I bet that no one in the entire blogosphere has ever used the word "obstreperous" as a tag, so I'm going to, just to be stubbornly defiant.  Obstreperousness in good fun can't all be bad.

tags: obstreperous