单词 | rumbustiousness |
释义 | rumbustiousnessn. Boisterous behaviour; rumbustious character. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > [noun] > riotousness riotry?a1400 royetnessa1522 riotousness?1535 riotise1590 rowdiness1847 rumbustiousness1895 1895 Monthly Packet Feb. 184 His holloaings and his whackings with his stick, and his general ‘rumbustiousness’. 1926 C. L. Graves Hubert Parry II. 106 In spite of his occasional exuberance and ‘rumbustiousness’ (a favourite word of his) he could..assume a wonderful dignity of demeanour. 1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 2 Oct. 556/4 More than one old White Russian..has felt his exiled convictions wavering a little before the rockets and rumbustiousness of the new Russia. 1977 Gramophone Jan. 1141/1 This come-to-the-fair rumbustiousness is well caught in the Scherzo. 2007 B. Wilson Making of Victorian Values i. vii. 207 An expression of irrepressible ‘Merry England’,..an extension of the rumbustiousness seen at annual fairs or tavern entertainments. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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