释义 |
rumˈbustical, a. dial. and colloq. Also rombustical. [prob. an alteration of robustic a. + -al1.] = rumbustious.
1795Spirit Publ. Jrnls. IV. 221 If she's rumbustical By Jove we must invade her. 1825C. Westmacott Eng. Spy II. 248 note, A rumbustical green one. 1840Hood Up the Rhine 319 Frederic the Great and his rumbustical father. 1881Athenæum 20 Aug. 253/2 The whole performance is robust and, if the use of such a term may be pardoned, a trifle ‘rumbustical’. |