r 1 u 1 m 3 p 3 u 1 s 1
6 letters · 10 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun the act of making a noisy disturbance
verb cause a disturbance
originUnknown. 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.
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