α. 1800s– rumbunctious, 1900s– rumbumptious.
β. 1800s– rambunctious, 1800s– rambunkshus, 1800s– rampunctious, 1900s– rambuctious, 1900s– rambumptious, 1900s– rambunctuous, 1900s– rambunksious.
单词 | rambunctious |
释义 | rambunctiousadj.α. 1800s– rumbunctious, 1900s– rumbumptious. β. 1800s– rambunctious, 1800s– rambunkshus, 1800s– rampunctious, 1900s– rambuctious, 1900s– rambumptious, 1900s– rambunctuous, 1900s– rambunksious. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.) Esp. of a person: uncontrollably exuberant, rumbustious; boisterous, wild, unruly. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > [adjective] wildc1000 unthewedc1175 wanton?a1300 rabbisha1387 irregular1395 inordinate1398 unruly1400 misgoverned?a1425 misruled?a1425 misruly?a1425 unruleful1439 seditious1447 rulelessc1460 turbulous1527 undaunted1533 turbulent1538 unordinate1561 rowsey1565 misorderlya1568 disruly1570 rabbling1575 disorderous1579 irregulate1579 disorderly1585 break-dance1587 willyart?1590 unguided1600 inorderly1606 anarchial1609 irregulousa1616 unmasterlya1623 uncomposed1631 obstreperous1641 disriegled1657 ranting1658 rantipole1660 reuling1691 shandy1691 rumblegarie1722 randy1723 obstropolous1727 wanruly1773 polrumptious1787 ree-raw1800 rambunctious1830 roid1874 unordered1929 rogue1948 1830 Boston Transcript 1 Sept. 3/1 If they are ‘rumbunctious’ at the prospect, they will be ‘riprorious’ when they get a taste, for a ‘copious acquaintance’ with Vinegar. 1859 ‘Dow, Jr.’ New Patent Serm. 120 Some [men] are mild and peaceable as lambs, while others are as uproarious and rambunctious as tigers. 1866 C. H. Smith Bill Arp, so Called 54 A plan was set on foot to procure a fierce and rambunkshus animal from the mountains of Hepsidam. 1899 Cent. Mag. Aug. 623/1 Och, Misther McGeever, now..I niver heerd no man accuse you of bein' anyway rambunkshus about yer nabor's house. 1902 R. Kipling Traffics & Discov. (1904) 181 ‘The petrol will light up and the boiler may blow up.’ ‘How rambunkshus!’ 1928 W. A. White Masks in Pageant 442 Outside of Vermont, in these expansive, more rambunctious United States, economy is a low virtue ordinarily. 1962 Guardian 4 May 16/5 It then seemed that Mr Fulbright's opponent would be..Dale Alford, a weak but rambunctious man who had promising connections with the Walkerites, the Indignationists, the Birchites. 1977 New Yorker 8 Aug. 47/3 The club that initiated the championship was Prestwick, which occupies a rambunctious stretch of duneland on the east shore of the Firth of Clyde. 2005 Mountain Democrat (Placerville, Calif.) 11 Nov. c18/4 Nothing distracts from this picture as much as a barking dog and rambunctious children. Derivatives ramˈbunctiously adv. ΚΠ 1915 N.Y. Times 23 July 8/4 He would become joyously and rambunctiously active and would regain at a bound his old capacity for inflicting pain on solemn windbags and morning-glory theorists. 1962 J. E. Hartshorn Politics & World Oil Econ. xiii. 193 In the United States these companies, and a host of smaller, even more rambunctiously ‘free enterprisers’ in the domestic oil business there, get on very comfortably thank you with state agencies. 1990 N.Y. Times 15 Oct. a8/6 Few places exemplify this more rambunctiously than Sakhalin, where a new generation of insurgent politicians led by Mr. Fyodorov is cocky with plans to turn the mauled legacy of Communism into something better. ramˈbunctiousness n. ΚΠ 1905 Washington Post 3 Dec. 3/3 If I'm not there or thereabouts during some of the rambunctiousness this session I'm going to give it up. 1914 Blackwood's Mag. July 123/1 Our western bronco retains much of his primitive rambunctiousness. 1996 USA Today 15 Nov. d2/4 Part of my mandate was to try to bring back the spark and rambunctiousness of the classic '40s Looney Tunes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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