rambunctiousness

ram·bunc·tious (r

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ngk

adj.

Boisterous and disorderly.

[Probably alteration of robustious, rumbustious, from robust.]

ram·bunctious·ly adv.

ram·bunctious·ness n.

rambunctious [ræmˈbʌŋkʃəs]

adj

Informal boisterous; unruly

[probably from Icelandic ram- (intensifying prefix) + -bunctious, from bumptious]

rambunctiously adv

rambunctiousness n

rambunctious - Once rumbustious and robusteous, it is probably based on Latin robus, "oak"—implying strength—and can describe a person or animal.

See also related terms for oak.

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Adj.

rambunctious - noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline; "a boisterous crowd"; "a social gathering that became rambunctious and out of hand"; "a robustious group of teenagers"; "beneath the rumbustious surface of his paintings is sympathy for the vulnerability of ordinary human beings"; "an unruly class"

boisterous, robustious, rumbustious, unruly

disorderly - undisciplined and unruly; "disorderly youths"; "disorderly conduct"

Translations

rambunctious [ræmˈbʌŋkʃəs] ADJ (US) → bullicioso, pendenciero

rambunctious

adj, rambunctiously

adv (esp US inf) (= exuberant and noisy) → laut, lärmend; (= boisterous) → übermütig, ausgelassen, wild

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” As the neighboring grays skirmish with the Yankee blues, Charlie insists his six sons and one daughter sit out the battles and maintain their slave-free, self-sufficient homestead, which leads to some rambunctiousness among his adult sons, who sing that “next to lovin’, they like fightin’ best.

‘Shenandoah’ spirited, solid by Joe Brown / Las Vegas Sun

I made my first visit to Ballybrit racecourse and its accompanying circus a few years ago and found much of the rambunctiousness of 1944 still going strong, with very little restraint being exercised and plenty of violation being practised and largely tolerated.

Horse Racing: Looking forward to the first leg of a week to remember by The Racing Post (London, England)

Richardson's rambunctiousness about health care springs from the Legislature's failure to act during this year's 30-day session.

OIL-AND-GAS WINDFALL: POLITICOS, USE IT WISELY by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)

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