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rumbustious

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11 lettersPart of speech adjectiveSorted bimorsstuuuStarts with REnds with S0 clues
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Definitions

  1. noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline

Word origin

Uncertain but probably variation of robustious (“robust, large, noisy, violent”), from robust + -ious. Alternatively, from rum- (“nonsense syllable”) + bust + -ious.

Used in a sentence

  • “Childer! Borne ’em I ’ave, an’ buried ’em I ’ave, but now I can’t seem to do wi’ their clatter no more—young things is that restless an’ rumbustious.”
  • Joe Githongo had paid a personal price during the Moi era, and proved his credentials during the rumbustious multi-party years, working as a fundraiser for Kibaki’s Democratic Party.

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