rambunctious

Definition

Boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control.

Etymology

A variant of rumbustious (“boisterous and unruly”).

Example Sentences

• "The kids are being especially rambunctious today."
• ""Bad cess may attend you, where are you scampering to, you rambunctious"—but she could go no farther; the tears burst from her, and she gave way, without farther resistance, to an explosion of grief."
• ""Not as you knows on, you rambunctious wool grower," said the indignant Yankee."

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