robustious

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

robustious
    adj 1: 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" [syn: {boisterous},
           {rambunctious}, {robustious}, {rumbustious}, {unruly}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Robustious \Ro*bus"tious\, a. [Cf. L. robusteus of oak.]
   Robust. [Obs. or Humorous] --W. Irving.
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         In Scotland they had handled the bishops in a more
         robustious manner.                       --Milton.
   [1913 Webster] -- {Ro*bus"tious*ly}, adv. --
   {Ro*bus"tious*ness}, n.
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