rumbustious

[ ruhm-buhs-chuhs ]
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adjectiveChiefly British.

Origin of rumbustious

1
1775–80; probably variant of robustious

Words Nearby rumbustious

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How to use rumbustious in a sentence

  • Even the rumbustious Foreign Secretary and Deputy Leader George Brown got into the act.

    The Charmed Life of a Traitor | Harold Evans | November 6, 2009 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • The rumbustious ogre has a hitherto undescribed, but quite imaginable, gap-toothed, beetle-browed ogress of a wife.

    Jaffery | William J. Locke

British Dictionary definitions for rumbustious

rumbustious

/ (rʌmˈbʌstjəs) /


adjective
  1. boisterous or unruly

Origin of rumbustious

1
C18: probably a variant of robustious

Derived forms of rumbustious

  • rumbustiously, adverb
  • rumbustiousness, noun

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