rumbustious

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Boisterous and unruly. UK,informal
    — “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.”

词形变化

more rumbustious comparative most rumbustious superlative rambustious alternative rumbumptious alternative

词源

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