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rambunctious - 3 dictionary results
ram⋅bunc⋅tious
[ram-buhngk-shuh
s] 
–adjective
| 1. | difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child. |
| 2. | turbulently active and noisy: a social gathering that became rambunctious and out of hand. |
Origin:
1820–30, Americanism; orig. uncert.
1820–30, Americanism; orig. uncert.
Related forms:
ram⋅bunc⋅tious⋅ly, adverb
ram⋅bunc⋅tious⋅ness, noun
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| ram·bunc·tious (rām-bŭngk'shəs) adj. Boisterous and disorderly. [Probably alteration of robustious, rumbustious, from robust.] ram·bunc'tious·ly adv., ram·bunc'tious·ness n. |
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rambunctious
1830, probably altered (by influence of ram) from rumbustious (1778), itself an arbitrary formation perhaps suggested by rum and boisterous, robustious, bumptious, etc.
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