Added 9 October 2026
rumbustious
adjective
adjective Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. More about rumbustious at Wordnik → Where our words come from →
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Noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline.
a boisterous crowd
Origin
Uncertain but probably variation of robustious (“robust, large, noisy, violent”), from robust + -ious. Alternatively, from rum- (“nonsense syllable”) + bust + -ious.
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