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  • adjective An alternative spelling of rampageous.

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Examples

  • His aircraft skips over two ditches like a rampagious he-goat; it is a miracle that he has not pancaked long ago.

    Stuka Pilot Rudel, Hans-Ulrich 1973

  • "You jest stow that, and hold your rampagious cacklin ', or I'll soon make you rattle your ivories to another toon, I reckon, you ugly cuss!"

    Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek

  • "I'se able to ride any wild hoss, and tinks I can settle de rampagious animile."

    The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea J. [Illustrator] Schonberg

  • They were upon him in an instant, smelling of childhood, copy-books, ink, and rampagious with hunger.

    A Prisoner in Fairyland Algernon Blackwood 1910

  • I suppose it was all especially entrancing to Wendy, because those rampagious boys of hers gave her so much to do.

    Peter and Wendy F. D. [Illustrator] Bedford 1898

  • I suppose it was all especially entrancing to Wendy, because those rampagious boys of hers gave her so much to do.

    Peter Pan 1898

  • And that had been the spirit of all of them, those jolly, rampagious lads, plain or handsome, clever or slow.

    Elizabeth's Campaign Humphry Ward 1885

  • 'Do you think --' said the other in a tone of singular vibration, which had in it a note of almost contemptuous irritation -- 'do you think _I_ am the man to get and keep a hold on a rampagious class of hundreds of

    Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885

  • I mean as we deals in that 'ere rampagious helement.

    Sue, A Little Heroine L. T. Meade 1884

  • "You're a mild spring chicken, you are; it is only that wild, rampagious companion of yours that I want you to look after."

    Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series Bracebridge Hemyng 1871

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