[ adj ] noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline <adj.all> a boisterous crowda 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
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.