2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Robustious \Ro*bus"tious\, a. [Cf. L. robusteus of oak.]
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
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}]
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