robustious : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: robustious	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for robustious
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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" Synonym(s): boisterous, rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious, unruly
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Robustious \Robus"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. -- {Robus"tiously}, adv. -- {Robus"tiousness}, n.