ROBUSTIOUS
boisterous, rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious, unruly
(adjective) 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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
robustious (comparative more robustious, superlative most robustious)
boisterous
Source: Wiktionary
Ro*bus"tious, a. Etym: [Cf. L. robusteus of oak.]
Definition: Robust. [Obs. or Humorous] W. Irving. In Scotland they had handled the bishops in a more robustious manner. Milton.
– Ro*bus"tious*ly, adv.
– Ro*bus"tious*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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