rambunctious
ram·bunc·tious
adjective
1.
noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline
- “a boisterous crowd”
- “a social gathering that became rambunctious and out of hand”
- “a robustious group of teenagers”
- “beneath the rumbustious surface of his paintings is sympathy for the vulnerability of ordinary human beings”
- “an unruly class”
Origin
A variant of rumbustious (“boisterous and unruly”).
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