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单词 rumbustical
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rumbusticaladj.

Brit. /rʌmˈbʌstᵻkl/, /rəmˈbʌstᵻkl/, U.S. /ˌrəmˈbəstək(ə)l/
Forms: 1700s rombustical, 1700s– rumbustical, 1800s rambustical, 1900s– rumbusticle (English regional (Nottinghamshire)).
Origin: Probably a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: robustic adj.
Etymology: Probably an alteration of rumbustious adj. after words in -ical suffix; perhaps compare robustic adj.
colloquial (English regional (east midlands) in later use).
= rumbustious adj.
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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).
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