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rambunctious definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
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" [syn: boisterous, rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious, unruly]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: probably alteration of rumbustious Date: 1830 marked by uncontrollable exuberance ; unruly • rambunctiously adverb • rambunctiousness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. US colloq. 1 uncontrollably exuberant. 2 unruly. Derivatives: rambunctiously adv. rambunctiousness n. Etymology: 19th c.: orig. unkn.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

A rambunctious person is energetic in a cheerful, noisy way. (mainly AM; in BRIT, usually use rumbustious) ...a very rambunctious and energetic class. = boisterous ADJ: usu ADJ n