robustious
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- adjective Robust; rough; violent; rude.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline
Examples
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Dropping down on the sofa with his head laid low and his feet thrown up in a favourite attitude on the back, which must, I imagine, have been at least as easy as it was elegant, he began the conversation by bantering me upon what he called my "robustious" appearance compared with what he had been led to expect from gloomy reports of uncertain health.
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In November a new President of the USA will be elected after a robustious campaign by perhaps 140 million Americans.
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O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise.
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Beautiful silence; and so soon as this robustious rain takes off, I am to drink of it again by oceanfuls.
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He was a delicate youth, I take it, and willingly slunk from the robustious winter to an inn fire-side.
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In a moment I felt that my cheeks were red enough to satisfy Daddy himself, who is always a strenuous advocate of robustious femininity.
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Just, just; and the men do sympathize with the mastiffs in robustious and rough coming on, leaving their wits with their wives: and then give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.
Note
The word 'robustious' comes from the Latin word 'robusteus' ('of oak').
