robustious Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline
    rambunctious; rumbustious; unruly; boisterous.
    • 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

WordNet

Ro*bus"tious adjective
Etymology
Cf. L. robusteus of oak.
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913