rumbustious
SEE DEFINITION OF rumbustiousSynonyms for rumbustious
- boisterous
- fierce
- hectic
- raucous
- riotous
- stormy
- turbulent
- violent
- agitated
- clamorous
- disorderly
- disturbed
- excited
- irregular
- lawless
- noisy
- obstreperous
- passionate
- raging
- rambunctious
- restless
- rowdy
- rowdydowdy
- termagant
- unrestrained
- unruly
- uproarious
- vociferous
- wild
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The rumbustious ogre has a hitherto undescribed, but quite imaginable, gap-toothed, beetle-browed ogress of a wife.
WORD ORIGIN
1778, an arbitrary formation perhaps suggested by rum (adj.) + boisterous, robustious, bumptious, etc. Cf., from about the same time, rumbustical, rumgumptious.
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