Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
boisterous orunruly manner
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word rumbustiously.
Examples
-
Those five chapters were the start of her children's debut Fly By Night, a rumbustiously imagined rollick through the adventures of the black-eyed orphan Mosca Mye and her pugilistic goose Saracen.
-
Here's a brief quote from one of the short 'reviews': 'Kate Atkinson's funny, furious fourth novel rumbustiously drives a path through the genre of detective fiction, demolishing its careful, forensic summations of human behaviour and replacing them with bloody, believable, vigorous tales of wrongdoing and loss, of personal eccentricity and recognisable fate, and most importantly of people who were very much alive before they were dead.'
Kate Atkinson: Case Histories Michael Allen 2005
-
The Bible was plundered for yet more laughs in films like Evan Almighty, The God Complex, Year One and perhaps most rumbustiously of all, The Real Old Testament.
Film | guardian.co.uk David Cox 2010
-
The Bible was plundered for yet more laughs in films like Evan Almighty, The God Complex, Year One and perhaps most rumbustiously of all, The Real Old Testament.
The Guardian World News David Cox 2010
-
Rounding off an exceptionally well-filled and desirable disc is a handful of Poulenc miniatures, ranging from the vulgarity of his early Valse via the farcical Manes de la Tour Eiffel pieces to the rumbustiously jolly Matelote provencale.
AvaxHome RSS: 2009
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.