rambunctious
pronunciation
How to pronounce rambunctious in British English:
UK [ræmˈbʌŋkʃəs]
How to pronounce rambunctious in American English:
US [ræmˈbʌŋkʃəs]
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- Adjective:
- noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline
Word Origin
- rambunctious (adj.)
- 1859, earlier rumbunctious, 1830, probably altered (by influence of ram) from rumbustious.
Example
- 1. Rambunctious debate is central to america 's democracy .
- 2. She wakes up at 6 a.m.each day to deal with rambunctious preteens - and at times during the school day is the only adult in the classroom .
- 3. Not when I was an adventure-seeking , rambunctious toddler , but as an older high school teenager .
- 4. He is the teacher we all had in grade school who could walk into a classroom filled with rambunctious kids and get everyone to calm down and behave .
- 5. This is not confined to the past : cigarette smuggling remains a major industry in pirate havens from southern italy to south-east china , but is also common in less rambunctious areas ; police in suburban maryland rolled up an alleged tobacco ring in the eastern us just last month .