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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Boisterous and disorderly.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Same as rambustious.
  2. Violent but satisfactory; goluptious. Also rambunkshus.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Energetic, noisy, boisterous and difficult to control.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline

Etymologies

  1. Possibly alteration of rumbustious. (Wiktionary)
  2. Probably alteration of robustious, rumbustious, from robust. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “But some see a system of harried parents, school officials and general practitioners too ready to label rambunctious young males.”

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  • “While descriptions like "rabble-rousing" and "rambunctious" - which suggest disorder and rebellion - are shunned by these two individuals, words like "fiery" and”

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  • “I'm speaking as a person who loved to call rambunctious children and ridiculous pets”

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  • “He is an enthusiast with a kind of rambunctious, goofy charm.”

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  • “But if you're a worried mom and your kids are kind of rambunctious ...”

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  • “Toni Richardson, the former Connecticut commissioner for mental retardation, who worked at Southbury during the 1970s, recalls that in those days restraints were still used on children who were considered "rambunctious": the strips of cloth used to tie them to chairs or door handles were called "belly bands"; there was also something that "looked like a straitjacket, except that it was made of cotton.”

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  • “Mr. Lowry was "rambunctious" and "always dirty and sweaty," more contrarian than troublemaker: When everyone was going on about Star Wars, he didn't join the herd.”

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  • “If you start describing everything as "rambunctious" or "celestial", you end up with sentences like meals in expensive ethnic restaurants - all flavoursome sharing plates and no bloody chips.”

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  • “Described as 'rambunctious' by age five and leveled out at 'loquacious' by twenty-one.”

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