1778, an arbitrary formation, part of what Farmer describes as "A class of colloquialisms compounded with an intensive prefix" (ram- or rum-), probably suggesting in part rum (adj.) in its old slang sense of "good, fine," and ramp (n.2). In this case apparently suggested by boisterous, robustious, bumptious, etc. Coined about the same time were rumbustical, rambumptious "conceited, self-assertive," ramgumptious "shrewd, bold, rash," rambuskious "rough," rumstrugenous. Also compare ramshackle, rambunctious.
雙語例句
1. The children get very rumbustious after class.
下課后孩子們變得非常歡笑聲四溢的.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
2. Beneath the rumbustious surface of his paintings is sympathy for the vulnerability of ordinary human beings.