rumgumptiousadj.
/rʌmˈɡʌm(p)ʃəs/, U.S. /ˌrəmˈɡəm(p)ʃəs/, Scottish English /rʌmˈɡʌm(p)ʃəs/ English regional (northern and East Anglian) and Scottish.
Strong-willed, headstrong; quarrelsome.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > incautiousness > [adjective] > rash or reckless
recklesseOE
redmodOE
unreckless?c1225
hastivec1300
racklec1300
testyc1374
rabbisha1387
temeraryc1410
temerous1461
rash1509
temerarious1532
hare-brained1548
temerarec1550
hare-brain1566
hot-spurred1573
overrash1577
hotspur1586
madcap1591
wretchless1598
Phaetontic1608
zeal-blind1615
Phaetontal1617
unresponsable1619
Phaetontical1630
phaetonicala1640
Phaetonic1708
hell-bent1731
harum-scarum1751
unresponsible1764
suicidal1768
rumgumptious1781
shy1787
devil-may-care1799
bullheaded1818
devil-may-carish1825
temeritous1892
kamikaze1952
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [adjective] > rough > rough or boisterous
robustious1548
boisterous1568
rory-tory1683
randy1723
rumgumptious1781
lungeous1787
rowdy dowdy1816
roaritorious1821
riproarious1830
rough and tumble1831
rowdy1832
rowdy-dow1832
tear-brass1880
knockabout1885
rory-cum-tory1893
roughhouse1896
1781 J. Hutton Tour to Caves (ed. 2) Gloss. 95/1 Rumgumshaws, violent, bold, and rash.
1824 W. Carr Horæ Momenta Cravenæ 104 Rum-gumptious, forward and pompous.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Rumgumptious, sturdy in opinion; rough and surly in asserting it.
1847 Varney the Vampire xlvi. 212/2 He's a turning rumgumtious, and no mistake.
1884 T. C. J. West Doom of Doolandour II. iii. 30 He's always a tormenting me with his imperence. He's the most rumgumtious chap ever came in a house.
1906 Arfao 115 Aren't you sorry you were so stubborn or rumgumptious toward Plato?
1962 A. Jobson Window in Suffolk vi. 96 A quarrelsome person was rumgumshus.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1781