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rumbumptious

rumbumptious is the alternative form of rumbustious.

Meaning of rumbustious

Adjective

rumbustious (comparative more rumbustious, superlative most rumbustious)

  1. (UK, informal) Synonym of rambunctious, boisterous and unruly.
    • “Childer! Borne ’em I ’ave, an’ buried ’em I ’ave, but now I can’t seem to do wi’ their clatter no more—young things is that restless an’ rumbustious.”1912, Blanche Edith Baughan, “Red and Yellow and Ripe”, in Brown Bread from a Colonial Oven
    Synonyms:
    rambunctious, boisterous and unruly

Forms of rumbumptious

comparativemore rumbumptious
superlativemost rumbumptious

Questions about rumbumptious

What is rumbumptious the alternative form of?
Rumbumptious is the alternative form of rumbustious.

Words near rumbumptious in the dictionary

  1. rumbud
  2. rumbuds
  3. Rumbula
  4. rumbullion
  5. rumbullions
  6. rumbumptious
  7. rumbunctious
  8. rumbunctiously
  9. rumbunctiousness
  10. rumbustical
  11. rumbustion

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