rumpus
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rumpus
- /ˈɹʌm.pəs/
Rhymes with -ʌmpəs
Where it comes from
Unknown. First use appears c. 1745. The OED indicates: "perhaps an arbitrary formation". Possibly an alteration of rumbustical or rumbustious (“boisterous, noisy”) + Latin -us (“nominative suffix”). The use of the verbal form first appears c. 1839.
noun rumpuses
- A noisy, sometimes violent disturbance; noise and confusion; a noisy quarrel or brawl. "I'd like to know how on earth we are going to finish the case with all this umptydoodle rumpus going on."
- A rumpus room.
verb rumpuses · rumpusing · rumpused · rumpussed
- To cause a noisy disturbance or commotion. All night, as wide awake as gnats, The terriers rumpused after rats, Or, just for practice, taught their brats, To worry cast-off shoes and hats.
