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chiefly British
Synonyms & Antonyms of rumbustious
being rough or noisy in a high-spirited way
- while American university debates tend to be sedate affairs, their counterparts in Oxford are wholeheartedly rumbustious
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Words Related to rumbustious
- callithumpian,
- carnival,
- carnivalesque,
- larrikin
- [chiefly Australian],
- raffish,
- rampageous,
- riotous,
- rowdyish,
- ruffianly
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The first known use of rumbustious was circa 1777
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