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Definition of rumbustious in English: rumbustiousadjective rʌmˈbʌstʃəsrʌmˈbʌstɪəsˌrəmˈbəstʃəs British informal Boisterous or unruly. 〈非正式,主英〉吵嚷的,喧闹的;不守规矩的;不守法的 rumbustious football fans Example sentencesExamples - The first half of the concert moved from 16th century recorder music, through Mozart, vocal chamber music, on to rumbustious wind sea shanties and then a lively string quintet.
- The atmosphere that prevailed was redolent of a Gainsborough studio set for a rumbustious period drama.
- While King Henry IV attempts to unite the warring factions making up his kingdom, his son Prince Hal prefers the rumbustious company of Sir John Falstaff.
- Again, Bruckner advances his tonal phrases upwards, an Austrian trait that delights the senses with rumbustious feelings.
- Everybody knows that the politician has a rumbustious temperament, I think journalists know that more than most.
- The good humour was infectious and the rumbustious crowd of students, boiler-makers, steelworkers, auto-workers and other union members stamped their approval.
- The large crowds at race courses and football matches, rumbustious but not often posing a real problem of public order, reflected a disciplined and orderly workforce.
- Navy towns, as McKee reports, are no longer so rumbustious.
- Slim, bald, and carefully courteous, he is the most understated Glaswegian you could meet, palpably different from the aggressively rumbustious salesmen that used to dominate the arms industry.
- There are rumbustious animal fights and wrestling matches, and Holi is celebrated on horseback, on elephant back, on foot, in a whirl of shifting colours.
- Lord Hailsham was one of the most rumbustious politicians of his age.
- The best songs here follow their previous blueprint: rollicking, rumbustious blues-banjo riots.
- Stravinsky originally conceived of the ballet as a modernist work - a rumbustious Joycean collage depicting a Russian village wedding.
- The rarely heard Loeffler work is a gem of beauty with a characteristically expansive opening and a rumbustious Russian dance as a Finale.
- Nothing in the work is more engaging than the start of the finale, where rumbustious high spirits reform into an infectious polacca.
- The rumbustious humor, gleefully mixing sex, scatology and food, resembles Fellini at his most burlesque, while the hints of the surreal and the supernatural recall South American magic realism.
- He encouraged us to read a great deal, too, especially the great rumbustious nineteenth-century French novels, for my father's temperament is for the romantic, the extravagant, the wild and poetic and beautiful.
- There is a constant feeling of suppressed impatience from him, although every so often he breaks into a wheezy, rumbustious, infectious laugh.
- Many rumbustious celebrations were held on this occasion!
Synonyms boisterous, unrestrained, irrepressible, exuberant, uproarious, rollicking, roisterous, rackety, noisy, loud, clamorous unruly, disorderly, rowdy, badly behaved, riotous, undisciplined, ill-disciplined, unmanageable, uncontrollable, ungovernable, uncontrolled, obstreperous, disruptive, wild, rough North American informal rambunctious archaic rampageous rare robustious
Derivativesadverb British informal This was a rumbustiously motley affair where amateurs would don disguises and curious monikers to run for cash in what is, I believe, the oldest sprint event in the country. Example sentencesExamples - I've missed writing about a lovely sunny day, and a rainy day, and a quite rumbustiously stormy night.
noun British informal The team is special one, one whose mixture of defensive brilliance and inspired rumbustiousness means that they are burnished on the memories of all early converts to the sport. Example sentencesExamples - They are blessed with a vivacity and rumbustiousness that eclipses the lives of those around them.
- Despite the outward rumbustiousness of several of his large-scale works, there was a profoundly reflective side to Bliss, partly deepened by the war, partly inbuilt.
OriginLate 18th century: probably an alteration of archaic robustious 'boisterous, robust'. Definition of rumbustious in US English: rumbustiousadjectiveˌrəmˈbəstʃəsˌrəmˈbəsCHəs British informal Boisterous or unruly. 〈非正式,主英〉吵嚷的,喧闹的;不守规矩的;不守法的 rumbustious football fans Example sentencesExamples - The first half of the concert moved from 16th century recorder music, through Mozart, vocal chamber music, on to rumbustious wind sea shanties and then a lively string quintet.
- Nothing in the work is more engaging than the start of the finale, where rumbustious high spirits reform into an infectious polacca.
- Slim, bald, and carefully courteous, he is the most understated Glaswegian you could meet, palpably different from the aggressively rumbustious salesmen that used to dominate the arms industry.
- He encouraged us to read a great deal, too, especially the great rumbustious nineteenth-century French novels, for my father's temperament is for the romantic, the extravagant, the wild and poetic and beautiful.
- The rarely heard Loeffler work is a gem of beauty with a characteristically expansive opening and a rumbustious Russian dance as a Finale.
- The good humour was infectious and the rumbustious crowd of students, boiler-makers, steelworkers, auto-workers and other union members stamped their approval.
- Lord Hailsham was one of the most rumbustious politicians of his age.
- The rumbustious humor, gleefully mixing sex, scatology and food, resembles Fellini at his most burlesque, while the hints of the surreal and the supernatural recall South American magic realism.
- The large crowds at race courses and football matches, rumbustious but not often posing a real problem of public order, reflected a disciplined and orderly workforce.
- While King Henry IV attempts to unite the warring factions making up his kingdom, his son Prince Hal prefers the rumbustious company of Sir John Falstaff.
- The best songs here follow their previous blueprint: rollicking, rumbustious blues-banjo riots.
- Again, Bruckner advances his tonal phrases upwards, an Austrian trait that delights the senses with rumbustious feelings.
- Everybody knows that the politician has a rumbustious temperament, I think journalists know that more than most.
- Many rumbustious celebrations were held on this occasion!
- Navy towns, as McKee reports, are no longer so rumbustious.
- There is a constant feeling of suppressed impatience from him, although every so often he breaks into a wheezy, rumbustious, infectious laugh.
- The atmosphere that prevailed was redolent of a Gainsborough studio set for a rumbustious period drama.
- Stravinsky originally conceived of the ballet as a modernist work - a rumbustious Joycean collage depicting a Russian village wedding.
- There are rumbustious animal fights and wrestling matches, and Holi is celebrated on horseback, on elephant back, on foot, in a whirl of shifting colours.
Synonyms boisterous, unrestrained, irrepressible, exuberant, uproarious, rollicking, roisterous, rackety, noisy, loud, clamorous
OriginLate 18th century: probably an alteration of archaic robustious ‘boisterous, robust’. |