Robustious

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.


     [1913 Webster] -- {Ro*bus"tious*ly}, adv. --
     {Ro*bus"tious*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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}]