Pronunciations (2)
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/ɹæmˈbʌŋ(k)ʃəs/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
- Received-Pronunciation
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ɹæmˈbʌŋ(k)ʃəs
Adjective
Boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control.
Usage- US usage
- Informal
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- Examples
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The kids are being especially rambunctious today.
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"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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There was close by me a window, and, noiselessly as possible, I slid back a small piece, thereby rousing the light-sleeping mistress of the canary, who sharply requested it be closed again; [...] the other lady smiled despairingly, and signed me to obey, which I reluctantly did by closing the glass; but the shutter proved rumbunctious, and for no effort of mine would again move out of his groove; [...]
"I guess the governor'd be rambunxious, as usual, if I was to ask his permission," the dutiful son remarked; "but he's going away for a few days next week, and mother won't hinder me, I know."
It may sometimes appear that Canada is composed of nine complacent, cohesive English-speaking provinces and rambunctious Quebec. In fact, it is composed of ten provinces, each different and all occasionally rambunctious.
Eventually the two rambunctious wolves decided to race back towards the carcass, no doubt forgetting I was still there.
Mrs. Tinkle, your son’s rambunctious behavior is quite common in children with unusually high intelligence levels.
She was placid, stately and Juno-esque, soft-toned in her trance utterances, but she could become powerful in her office, an imposing presence. Sometimes a rumbunctious, chaffing persona emerged and was a little over the top for genteel spinsters to tolerate.
She does the same thing as any parent worth their salt, and gets rambunctious youngsters engaged in daily drudgeries by refashioning the quotidian as adventure.
The Turkish-American film-maker Ceyda Torun documented the rambunctious street cats of Istanbul in her award-winning 2017 documentary Kedi (“cat” in Turkish).
Adjective
noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline
- Examples
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a boisterous crowd
a social gathering that became rambunctious and out of hand
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a robustious group of teenagers
beneath the rumbustious surface of his paintings is sympathy for the vulnerability of ordinary human beings
an unruly class