The Collaborative International Dictionary
Robustious \Ro*bus"tious\, a. [Cf. L. robusteus of oak.]
Robust. [Obs. or Humorous]
--W. Irving.
In Scotland they had handled the bishops in a more
robustious manner.
--Milton.
[1913 Webster] -- Ro*bus"tious*ly, adv. --
Ro*bus"tious*ness, n.
Wiktionary
a. boisterous
WordNet
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, rambunctious, rumbustious, unruly]
Usage examples of "robustious".
More ballad-concerts, more quaint English, more robustious barytone songs, more piecemeal pictures, more colonial poetry, more young nations with withered traditions.