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English
Etymology
From rum- (“strong, very”) + bust + -ious.
Alternatively, possibly from an alteration of robustious.
Adjective
rumbustious (comparative more rumbustious, superlative most rumbustious)
- (chiefly British, informal) Boisterous and unruly.
- Synonym: (chiefly US) rambunctious
1912, Blanche Edith Baughan, “Red and Yellow and Ripe”, in Brown Bread from a Colonial Oven:“Childer! Borne ’em I ’ave, an’ buried ’em I ’ave, but now I can’t seem to do wi’ their clatter no more—young things is that restless an’ rumbustious.”
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