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rumbustious, a. colloq.|rʌmˈbʌstɪəs|
Also rambustious, rombustious.
[prob. an alteration of robustious a. Cf. rumbustical.]
Boisterous, turbulent, unruly, uproarious.
1778Foote Trip to Calais i, The sea has been rather rumbustious, I own. 1797A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl (1813) V. 156 Miss Elinor is in one of her rumbustious fits; I must fetch the doctor. 1833L. Ritchie Wand. by Loire 40 The only rumbustious individual in the whole crowd was an itinerant tooth-drawer. 1853Lytton My Novel III. xi. xix. 364 That black-whiskered alligator, the Baron,..those rambustious, unchristian filbert-shaped claws of his. 1863Kingsley Water-Babies vii, The sperm whales are such raging, ramping, roaring, rumbustious fellows. 1894Mrs. H. Ward Marcella III. 105 Do you think I want to look as rumbustious as you? |