Robustious \Ro*bus"tious\, a. [Cf. L. robusteus of oak.]
Robust. [Obs. or Humorous] --W. Irving.
[1913 Webster]
In Scotland they had handled the bishops in a more
robustious manner. --Milton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
robustious
adj : 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,
rumbustious, unruly]
WordNet (r) 2.0
boisterous, rambunctious, rumbustious, unruly
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