Rumpus
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]1764, of unknown origin; "prob. a fanciful formation" [OED]; possibly an alteration of rumbustical or rumbustious (“boisterous, noisy”) + Latin -us (“nominative suffix”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]rumpus (plural rumpuses)
- A noisy, sometimes violent disturbance; noise and confusion; a noisy quarrel or brawl.
- 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 166:
- "I'd like to know how on earth we are going to finish the case with all this umptydoodle rumpus going on."
- 2016 February 7, Michael Barbaro, “Once Impervious, Marco Rubio Is Diminished by a Caustic Chris Christie”, in The New York Times[1]:
- But as his rumpus with Mr. Christie entered its second and third rounds, Mr. Rubio appeared to abandon that game plan.
- 2020 February 12, Jack Met, Adam Met, Ryan Met, “Bang!”, in OK Orchestra[2], performed by AJR:
- I get up, I get down, and I'm jumping around / And the rumpus and ruckus are comfortable now / Been a hell of a ride, but I'm thinking it's time to grow / Bang! Bang! Bang!
- (New Zealand, Australia, Canada) A rumpus room.
Synonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]noise and confusion
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See also
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unknown.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈrum.pus/, [ˈrʊmpʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈrum.pus/, [ˈrumpus]
Noun
[edit]rumpus m (genitive rumpī); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
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nominative | rumpus | rumpī |
genitive | rumpī | rumpōrum |
dative | rumpō | rumpīs |
accusative | rumpum | rumpōs |
ablative | rumpō | rumpīs |
vocative | rumpe | rumpī |
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “rumpus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- rumpus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “rumpus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 452