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rumbustious

rum·bus·tious

uncommon informal uk

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”
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Origin

Uncertain but probably variation of robustious (“robust, large, noisy, violent”), from robust + -ious. Alternatively, from rum- (“nonsense syllable”) + bust + -ious.

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