robustious

2 definitions found

robustious - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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]

robustious - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  robustious
      adj 1: 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, robustious, rumbustious, unruly]