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Definition of Rumbustious
1. Adjective. Noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline. "An unruly class"
Similar to: Disorderly
Derivative terms: Boisterousness, Unruliness
Definition of Rumbustious
1. Adjective. boisterous and unruly ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rumbustious
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rumbustious
Literary usage of Rumbustious
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"... rumbustious, rough, unruly ; rtim- ... The sea has been rather rumbustious,
I own.—Foote, Trip to Calais, Act I. RUMINE, to ruminate. ..."
2. A Glossary of Words and Phrases Pertaining to the Dialect of Cumberland by William Dickinson (1880)
"rumbustious, adj. noisy ; troublesome. ' ' They strutted about so ... and rumbustious
as lubber- cocks " (Turkey-cocks). ..."
3. Glossary of Words in Use in Cornwall by Margaret Ann Courtney, Thomas Quiller Couch (1880)
"rumbustious, adj. noisy; troublesome. ... and rumbustious as lubber-
cocks " (Turkey-cocks). ..."
4. The War for the World by Israel Zangwill (1916)
"The war being thus pre-eminently Christian, the Church is as qualified to
denounce "a premature peace" as any of the rumbustious patriots who break up the ..."
5. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1819)
"... which— excuse his presumption — After the expression of a hope that ' wars
and rumbustious will cease,' and that That our do-nothing Captains must all ..."
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