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robustious
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective robustious has 1 sense
- robustious(s = adj.all) boisterous, rambunctious, rumbustious, unruly - noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline; "a boisterous crowd"; "a social gathering that became rambunctious and out of hand"; "a robustious group of teenagers"; "beneath the rumbustious surface of his paintings is sympathy for the vulnerability of ordinary human beings"; "an unruly class"
CIDE DICTIONARY
robustious, a. [Cf. L. robusteus of oak.].
Robust. W. Irving. [1913 Webster]
"In Scotland they had handled the bishops in a more robustious manner."
[1913 Webster]
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