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rambunctious, a. colloq. (orig. and chiefly U.S.).|ræmˈbʌŋkʃəs, ˈræmˌbʌŋkʃəs|
Also rambunkshus, rumbunctious, etc.
[Origin unknown: cf. rumbustious a.]
Of a person: rumbustious, exuberant; boisterous, unruly; flamboyant; of an animal: wild, high-spirited. Also transf. Hence ramˈbunctiously adv., ramˈbunctiousness.
1830Boston Transcript 1 Sept. 3/1 If they are ‘rumbunctious’ at the prospect, they will be ‘riprorious’ when they get a taste, for a ‘copious acquaintance’ with Vinegar. 1859‘Dow, Jr.’ New Patent Sermons 120 Some [men] are mild and peaceable as lambs, while others are as uproarious and rambunctious as tigers. 1866C. H. Smith Bill Arp 54 A plan was set on foot to procure a fierce and rambunkshus animal from the mountains of Hepsidam. 1886Galaxy 1 Oct. 275 ‘Rampunctious’ is belligerent. 1899Century Mag. Aug. 623/1 Och, Misther McGeever, now..I niver heerd no man accuse you of bein' anyway rambunkshus about yer nabor's house. 1902Kipling Traffics & Discov. (1904) 181 ‘The petrol will light up and the boiler may blow up.’ ‘How rambunkshus!’ 1904E. Robins Magnetic North I. 123 And it hasn't thought of sleetin'..or anything else rambunksious. 1914Blackw. Mag. July 123/1 Our western bronco retains much of his primitive rambunctiousness. 1922Joyce Ulysses 146 Those slightly rambunctious females. 1926‘J. J. Connington’ Death at Swaythling Court xvi. 284, I was a bit worried and not feeling particularly rambunctious. 1928W. A. White Masks in Pageant 442 Outside of Vermont, in these expansive, more rambunctious United States, economy is a low virtue ordinarily. 1962J. E. Hartshorn Politics & World Oil Econ. xiii. 193 In the United States these companies, and a host of smaller, even more rambunctiously ‘free enterprisers’ in the domestic oil business there, get on very comfortably thank you with state agencies. 1962Guardian 4 May 16/5 It then seemed that Mr Fulbright's opponent would be..Dale Alford, a weak but rambunctious man who had promising connections with the Walkerites, the Indignationists, the Birchites. 1971G. H. Bourne Ape People xi. 247 This animal was a rough, tough, rambunctious creature. 1976Time 27 Dec. 13/2 Brezhnev inherited many problems from his rambunctious, buccaneering predecessor, Nikita Khrushchev. 1977New Yorker 8 Aug. 47/3 The club that initiated the championship was Prestwick, which occupies a rambunctious stretch of duneland on the east shore of the Firth of Clyde. 1980Daily Tel. 19 Feb. 17/4 J. Edgar Hoover, the then-director of the FBI and the man in charge of all counter-intelligence operations in the United States, personally ordered the probe into Flynn's off-screen activities after the rambunctious star was accused in California of sexually assaulting two under-age girls. |