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robustious |
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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