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rambunctious

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ram⋅bunc⋅tious

  [ram-buhngk-shuhs]
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–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.

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.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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