rumbustious
[ ruhm-buhs-chuhs ]
Origin of rumbustious
11775–80; 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 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
boisterous or unruly
Origin of rumbustious
1C18: probably a variant of robustious
Derived forms of rumbustious
- rumbustiously, adverb
- rumbustiousness, noun
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