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单词 rambunctious
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rambunctiousadj.

Brit. /ramˈbʌŋ(k)ʃəs/, U.S. /ræmˈbəŋ(k)ʃəs/
Forms:

α. 1800s– rumbunctious, 1900s– rumbumptious.

β. 1800s– rambunctious, 1800s– rambunkshus, 1800s– rampunctious, 1900s– rambuctious, 1900s– rambumptious, 1900s– rambunctuous, 1900s– rambunksious.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: rumbustious adj.
Etymology: Variant or alteration of rumbustious adj., apparently influenced in form by nouns and adjectives with -unct- (as unctuous adj., compunction n., punctilious adj., perfunctory adj., etc.).With forms rumbumptious , rambumptious compare bumptious adj.
colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.)
Esp. of a person: uncontrollably exuberant, rumbustious; boisterous, wild, unruly. Also in extended use.
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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.
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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.
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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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