Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Boisterous; careless of the comfort of others; violent; arrogant.
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Examples
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Tonight's set, largely culled from their self-titled debut, doesn't disappoint, and they also throw in a surprisingly rambustious cover of Q Lazarus '' Goodbye Horses 'mid-set.
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Tonight's set, largely culled from their self-titled debut, doesn't disappoint, and they also throw in a surprisingly rambustious cover of Q Lazarus '' Goodbye Horses 'mid-set.
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Tonight's set, largely culled from their self-titled debut, doesn't disappoint, and they also throw in a surprisingly rambustious cover of Q Lazarus '' Goodbye Horses 'mid-set.
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And as for that black-whiskered alligator, the baron, let me first get out of those rambustious, unchristian, filbert-shaped claws of his, and then -- but jump in! jump in! and tell the man where to drive! "
My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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And as for that black-whiskered alligator, the baron, let me first get out of those rambustious, unchristian, filbert-shaped claws of his, and then -- but jump in! jump in! and tell the man where to drive! "
My Novel — Volume 11 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
chained_bear commented on the word rambustious
"'Yon feller's right rambustious,' she said with approval, eyes fixed on Jamie. 'I could admire me a man like that!'"
—Diana Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes (New York: Bantam Dell, 2005), 507
February 1, 2010