WCOREW Word

Rumpus


Sponsored by Sharon Gascoigne

Came first in group 339 in round 1 with 599 votes

beat Width on 56 votes
beat Manner on 13 votes
beat Lord on 13 votes


Came first in group 85 in round 2 with 348 votes

beat Guffaw on 177 votes
beat Ganache on 159 votes
beat Protrude on 52 votes


Lost in group 43 in round 3 with 462 votes

beaten by Onomatopoeia on 524 votes



English

[edit]
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

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]

Noun

[edit]

rumpus (plural rumpuses)

  1. 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!
  2. (New Zealand, Australia, Canada) A rumpus room.

Synonyms

[edit]

Translations

[edit]

See also

[edit]

Latin

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Unknown.[1]

Pronunciation

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

rumpus m (genitive rumpī); second declension

  1. A vine branch

Declension

[edit]

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
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.
  1. ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “rumpus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 452