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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rambunctious
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ two rambunctious boys
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I was rather rambunctious in those days, pacing about the room, acting more like General Patton than General Schwarzkopf.
▪ Maybe he encouraged my rambunctious behavior.
▪ Mr Smith was a rambunctious retiree who lost his nose to an untended skin cancer.
▪ That collision of conflicting air masses usually causes particularly rambunctious storms to slam California.
▪ The libretto and music, completed in 1928, came from the rambunctious intellectual environment of Paris between the two world wars.
▪ They miss the rambunctious lot of them.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
rambunctious

1859, earlier rumbunctious, 1830, probably altered (by influence of ram) from rumbustious.

Wiktionary
rambunctious

a. (context informal chiefly North American English) Energetic, noisy, boisterous and difficult to control.

WordNet
rambunctious

adj. noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline; "a boisterous crowd"; "a social gathering that became rambunctious and out of hand"; "a robustious group of teenagers"; "beneath the rumbustious surface of his paintings is sympathy for the vulnerability of ordinary human beings"; "an unruly class" [syn: boisterous, robustious, rumbustious, unruly]

Usage examples of "rambunctious".

Still, he found himself missing the rambunctious energy the place had had in the days immediately after the Ring of Fire.

Quedlinburg had taken the old lady under her wing as soon as she arrived, along with keeping an eye on the rambunctious Princess Kristina.

Other writers are more flamboyant, even rambunctious, with their descriptions: syntactical pyrotechnics spark from every page.

His illegitimate son, product of a passion for a Dutch lady during his rambunctious youth, was serving as an officer in this very camp.

The wild exuberance of the music from the third movement served as a backdrop for the rambunctious enthusiasm of the U.

Nothing like trying to catch slimy frogs for two rambunctious five-year-olds to get the delectable Cassie Miller off his mind.

It was one thing to plot the course of her heart, another thing entirely when two rambunctious five-year-olds were seated a mere six feet away.

Oversized brutes, they could gallop tirelessly all day and charge straight into battle with rambunctious glee.

After a day on the trail, finding and preparing meals, and keeping an eye on the rambunctious youngsters, they were happy just to be with one another.

Several of them nearest the door halted their rambunctious shouting long enough to send her curious, open stares.

Mother Mastiff had done her best to make one for him, but the rambunctious old lady had not really been the domestic type.

The camera pulled back enough to show her with her arms around a tall girl with shy eyes, and a rambunctious toddler running a toy across his lap.

Carrie Watson all the more romantic to this good-hearted, rambunctious young man.

A fitting successor to her paternal grandfathers, Rowans the Rambunctious, Rampaging, and Reckless respectively, she would have made King Roari a fine son.

You fellers watch him clost, and if folks git too rambunctious around the jail, call me quick.