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  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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