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ruckusy

ruckusy adjective: characteristically resembling or making a ruckus; loud; boisterous.

Adjective

ruckusy (comparative more ruckusy, superlative most ruckusy)

  1. (informal, rare) Characteristically resembling or making a ruckus; loud; boisterous
    • Beyond this circle of outdoorsy ruckusy kids I somehow befriended the decidedly different Thomas, who lived a few doors down in a house surrounded by flowers.1997, Stewart Henderson, In Elizabeth
    • My eyes flickered to the door behind him as sounds of partygoers being loud and ruckusy ebbed and flowed, cutting through this little world we'd created in the laundry room.2015, Penny Reid, Elements of Chemistry

Forms of ruckusy

comparativemore ruckusy
superlativemost ruckusy

Origin of ruckusy

From ruckus + -y.

Questions about ruckusy

What does ruckusy mean?
Ruckusy means characteristically resembling or making a ruckus; loud; boisterous.
What part of speech is ruckusy?
Ruckusy is an adjective.

Words near ruckusy in the dictionary

  1. ruckus
  2. ruckus juice
  3. ruckus room
  4. ruckus rooms
  5. ruckuses
  6. ruckusy
  7. ruckwoman
  8. ruckwomen
  9. ruckwork
  10. rucola
  11. rucoli

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