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rumbustious 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: alteration of robustious Date: 1778 chiefly British rambunctious • rumbustiously adverb, chiefly British • rumbustiousness noun, chiefly British

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. colloq. boisterous, noisy, uproarious. Derivatives: rumbustiously adv. rumbustiousness n. Etymology: prob. var. of robustious boisterous, ROBUST

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

A rumbustious person is energetic in a cheerful, noisy way. (BRIT; in AM, use rambunctious) ...the flamboyant and somewhat rumbustious prime minister. = boisterous ADJ: usu ADJ n