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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ɹæmˈbʌŋ(k)ʃəs/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: En-us-rambunctious.ogg Forms: more rambunctious [comparative], most rambunctious [superlative]
Etymology: A variant of rumbustious (“boisterous and unruly”). Head templates: {{en-adj}} rambunctious (comparative more rambunctious, superlative most rambunctious)
  1. (chiefly US, informal) Boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control. Tags: US, informal Categories (topical): Personality Synonyms: hyphy [slang], robustious, rumbustious, shandy [Northern-England, Scotland], unruly, wild, rambunxious [rare], rumbunctious Derived forms: rambunction [nonstandard], rambunctiously, rambunctiousness Related terms: ornery Translations (boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control): буен (buen) (Bulgarian), необуздан (neobuzdan) (Bulgarian), 粗暴 (cūbào) (Chinese Mandarin), onstuimig (Dutch), wild (Dutch), raisu (Finnish), riehakas (Finnish), vallaton (Finnish), turbulent (French), გაბრაზებული (gabrazebuli) (Georgian), wild (German), vom Affen gebissen (fam.) (German), 始末に負えない (shimatsu ni oenai) (alt: しまつにおえない) (Japanese), 手に負えない (te ni oenai) (alt: てにおえない) (Japanese), 난폭한 (nanpokhan) (Korean), strepitosus (Latin), exuberant (Romanian), neastâmpărat (Romanian), zbanghiu (Romanian), бу́йный (bújnyj) (Russian), бу́рный (búrnyj) (Russian), непокла́дистый (nepokládistyj) (Russian), непоко́рный (nepokórnyj) (Russian), непослу́шный (neposlúšnyj) (Russian), chillón (Spanish), estrepitoso (Spanish), bångstyrig (Swedish), oregerlig (Swedish), ostyrig (Swedish), yster (Swedish), delişmen (Turkish), zıpır (Turkish), zırtapoz (Turkish), zirzop (Turkish)

Alternative forms

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          "text": "\"I guess the governor'd be rambunxious, as usual, if I was to ask his permission,\" the dutiful son remarked; \"but he's going away for a few days next week, and mother won't hinder me, I know.\"",
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          "ref": "1990 March, L[ucyan] David Mech, “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?”, in Audubon, New York, N.Y.: National Audubon Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 82, column 2; reprinted in “Appendix 15. Article—Wolf Attacks on Humans”, in The Reintroduction of Gray Wolves to Yellowstone National Park and Central Idaho: Final Environmental Impact Statement, Helena, Mont.: Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, May 1994, →OCLC, pages 6-100:",
          "text": "Eventually the two rambunctious wolves decided to race back towards the carcass, no doubt forgetting I was still there.",
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          "ref": "2002 May 1, Jeffrey J. Rowland, Wigu Adventures, archived from the original on 2009-01-06:",
          "text": "Mrs. Tinkle, your son’s rambunctious behavior is quite common in children with unusually high intelligence levels.",
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          "text": "She was placid, stately and Juno-esque, soft-toned in her trance utterances, but she could become powerful in her office, an imposing presence. Sometimes a rumbunctious, chaffing persona emerged and was a little over the top for genteel spinsters to tolerate.",
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          "text": "She does the same thing as any parent worth their salt, and gets rambunctious youngsters engaged in daily drudgeries by refashioning the quotidian as adventure.",
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          "ref": "2023 October 3, Sirin Kale, “Purring, parasites and pure love: what exactly makes someone a cat person?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "The Turkish-American film-maker Ceyda Torun documented the rambunctious street cats of Istanbul in her award-winning 2017 documentary Kedi (“cat” in Turkish).",
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          "ref": "1990 March, L[ucyan] David Mech, “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?”, in Audubon, New York, N.Y.: National Audubon Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 82, column 2; reprinted in “Appendix 15. Article—Wolf Attacks on Humans”, in The Reintroduction of Gray Wolves to Yellowstone National Park and Central Idaho: Final Environmental Impact Statement, Helena, Mont.: Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, May 1994, →OCLC, pages 6-100:",
          "text": "Eventually the two rambunctious wolves decided to race back towards the carcass, no doubt forgetting I was still there.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002 May 1, Jeffrey J. Rowland, Wigu Adventures, archived from the original on 2009-01-06:",
          "text": "Mrs. Tinkle, your son’s rambunctious behavior is quite common in children with unusually high intelligence levels.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Molly Whittington-Egan, “Preface: Into the Cabinet”, in Mrs Guppy Takes a Flight: A Scandal of Victorian Spiritualism, [Castle Douglas, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland]: Neil Wilson Publishing, →ISBN, page x:",
          "text": "She was placid, stately and Juno-esque, soft-toned in her trance utterances, but she could become powerful in her office, an imposing presence. Sometimes a rumbunctious, chaffing persona emerged and was a little over the top for genteel spinsters to tolerate.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 December 12, Charles Bramesco, “A Spoonful of Nostalgia Helps the Calculated Mary Poppins Returns Go Down”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2019-05-24:",
          "text": "She does the same thing as any parent worth their salt, and gets rambunctious youngsters engaged in daily drudgeries by refashioning the quotidian as adventure.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 October 3, Sirin Kale, “Purring, parasites and pure love: what exactly makes someone a cat person?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "The Turkish-American film-maker Ceyda Torun documented the rambunctious street cats of Istanbul in her award-winning 2017 documentary Kedi (“cat” in Turkish).",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Boisterous",
          "boisterous"
        ],
        [
          "energetic",
          "energetic"
        ],
        [
          "noisy",
          "noisy"
        ],
        [
          "difficult",
          "difficult"
        ],
        [
          "control",
          "control#Verb"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly US, informal) Boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "slang"
          ],
          "word": "hyphy"
        },
        {
          "word": "robustious"
        },
        {
          "word": "rumbustious"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Northern-England",
            "Scotland"
          ],
          "word": "shandy"
        },
        {
          "word": "unruly"
        },
        {
          "word": "wild"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɹæmˈbʌŋ(k)ʃəs/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American",
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
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    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ],
      "word": "rambunxious"
    },
    {
      "word": "rumbunctious"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "buen",
      "sense": "boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control",
      "word": "буен"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "neobuzdan",
      "sense": "boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control",
      "word": "необуздан"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "cūbào",
      "sense": "boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control",
      "word": "粗暴"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control",
      "word": "onstuimig"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control",
      "word": "wild"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control",
      "word": "raisu"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control",
      "word": "riehakas"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control",
      "word": "vallaton"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control",
      "word": "turbulent"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "gabrazebuli",
      "sense": "boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control",
      "word": "გაბრაზებული"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control",
      "word": "wild"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control",
      "word": "vom Affen gebissen (fam.)"
    },
    {
      "alt": "しまつにおえない",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "shimatsu ni oenai",
      "sense": "boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control",
      "word": "始末に負えない"
    },
    {
      "alt": "てにおえない",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "te ni oenai",
      "sense": "boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control",
      "word": "手に負えない"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "nanpokhan",
      "sense": "boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control",
      "word": "난폭한"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control",
      "word": "strepitosus"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control",
      "word": "exuberant"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control",
      "word": "neastâmpărat"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control",
      "word": "zbanghiu"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "bújnyj",
      "sense": "boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control",
      "word": "бу́йный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "búrnyj",
      "sense": "boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control",
      "word": "бу́рный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nepokládistyj",
      "sense": "boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control",
      "word": "непокла́дистый"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nepokórnyj",
      "sense": "boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control",
      "word": "непоко́рный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "neposlúšnyj",
      "sense": "boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control",
      "word": "непослу́шный"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control",
      "word": "chillón"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control",
      "word": "estrepitoso"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control",
      "word": "bångstyrig"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control",
      "word": "oregerlig"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control",
      "word": "ostyrig"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control",
      "word": "yster"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control",
      "word": "delişmen"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control",
      "word": "zıpır"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control",
      "word": "zırtapoz"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control",
      "word": "zirzop"
    }
  ],
  "word": "rambunctious"
}

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