rambunctious
adj/ɹæmˈbʌŋ(k)ʃəs/US
Etymology
A variant of rumbustious (“boisterous and unruly”).
Definitions
Boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control.
- The kids are being especially rambunctious today.
- "Bad cess may attend you, where are you scampering to, you rambunctious"—but she could go no farther; the tears burst from her, and she gave way, without farther resistance, to an explosion of grief.
- "Not as you knows on, you rambunctious wool grower," said the indignant Yankee.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA