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polrumptious

polrumptious adjective: unruly, rowdy, restless.

Adjective

polrumptious (comparative more polrumptious, superlative most polrumptious)

  1. (archaic, dialectal, slang) Unruly, rowdy, restless.
    • "Why, that's another matter," replied the beadle; "an' if it be true—and I think thou doest not look so polrumptious as thy play-fellow yonder—thou wouldst be a mettle lass enow, an thou wert snog and snod a bit better. Come thou away then—the Rector is a good man."1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume III, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald...
    • "Iss, sir. Two knacks 'pon the floor, an' I'd ha' been up in a jiffey. But niver mind, sir, us'll wait up for mun to-night, an' I'll get the loan o' the Dearloves' blunderbust in case they gets polrumptious."1888, Q. [pseudonym; Arthur Quiller-Couch], chapter XVII, in The Astonishing History of Troy Town, London […]: Cassel & Company, Limited, page 213

Forms of polrumptious

comparativemore polrumptious
superlativemost polrumptious

Origin of polrumptious

Uncertain. Probably related to rumptious (“energetic, rowdy, uproarious”). The initial pol may be derived from some sense of poll.

Questions about polrumptious

What does polrumptious mean?
Polrumptious means unruly, rowdy, restless.
What part of speech is polrumptious?
Polrumptious is an adjective.

Words near polrumptious in the dictionary

  1. Polperro
  2. polpettine
  3. Polpotism
  4. polron
  5. polrons
  6. polrumptious
  7. pols
  8. POLSA
  9. POLSAs
  10. Polsby
  11. polsci

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