English Explanatory Dictionary

rumbustious

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Boisterous and unruly.

Word forms

rumbustious more rumbustious most rumbustious rambustious rumbumptious

Etymology

Uncertain but probably variation of robustious (“robust, large, noisy, violent”), from robust + -ious. Alternatively, from rum- (“nonsense syllable”) + bust + -ious.

Synonyms

rambunctious

Related words

rumbullion

Derived words

rambunctious rumbustiously rumbustiousness
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