单词 | rumbustical |
释义 | rumbusticaladj. colloquial (English regional (east midlands) in later use). = rumbustious adj. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > [adjective] > riotous tempestousc1374 tempestuous1447 uproarish1550 tumultuous1576 routious1602 tumultuary1650 ramp1678 mobbish1695 royet1737 riotous1775 rumbustiousa1777 rumbustical1779 rampageous1800 rioty1819 rampacious1836 tempestive1848 1779 H. B. Dudley Flitch of Bacon i. 4 As true as I'm alive he was a little rombustical to our Bridget. 1795 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1801) IV. 221 Cries Pitt—‘If she's rumbustical, By Jove we must invade her [sc. Ireland].’ 1796 J. G. Holman Abroad & at Home ii. v. 55 Old Testy. Give me a kiss, Kitty. Kitty. Lord, Sir, don't be rumbustical. 1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 292 Frederick the Great, and his most rumbustical royal father. 1853 F. A. Durivage Life Scenes 176 They might hurt you, if so be you happened to be rambustical. 1881 Athenæum 20 Aug. 253/2 The whole performance is robust and, if the use of such a term may be pardoned, a trifle ‘rumbustical’. 1906 Pall Mall Mag. Apr. 503/1 Ignorance of the meaning of the word rumbustical makes me hesitate to apply it to the master mariner, but..it may serve to describe his style. 1938 L. Whistler Sir John Vanbrugh ii. 45 He was too big a man to be disturbed by the firework of a ranting rumbustical parson. 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 251/1 If yah goo on bein' all rumbustical likes as yer are now, A'll 'ave ter arrest yer an' stick yer in the Doon fer the neight. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1779 |
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