Meaning of rumptious | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of a person's buttocks: large, well-shaped.
   humorous, nonstandard
2. Energetic, rowdy, uproarious.
   dialectal

Examples

“I am not one to scourge such a rumptious and beautiful arse such as you are quite properly displaying to us now, my dear. Push⟳ it out more, and you also, Caroline. More, girls, more! Ah, yes indeed, that is better. What vaselike forms their hips take⟳, do they not, Jonathan?”

“Inebriated, she didn't feel⟳ a thing, thinking she was being pinched and stroked, when he inserted a small needle into her rumptious tush, putting her soundly to sleep⟳.”

“Due to the overwhelming interest⟳—throughout human history, it seems—in this particular feature of our anatomy, I feel⟳, before we look⟳ at exercises, a special word must be given to these rumptious rounds of misery and delight.”

“But to speak⟳ in that rumptious manner! No! I can't never believe⟳ it! She was sich a simple one, was our Hannah—allays ready to cry⟳ if spoke to, almost a natural as you may say⟳, but never 'aughty or proud.”

“In the inner office behind the closed door John Senior could be heard moving restlessly about. ¶ "Old man's rumptious!" said Fannie over her shoulder. ¶ But John Senior was more than rumptious. He was mad—mad all through at the turn⟳ of Fate that had dropped his letter to Moulton into Eben Braithwaite's outstretched hand. . . . He flung himself into a chair and hunched his shoulders and looked at it.”

“In the hands of a skillful writer, the South's colorful cast⟳ of genteel aristocrats, coquettish belles, devoted mammies, and rumptious hill folk could be enchanting.”

“They were Sandy, a large Orlando-like chap with what we called a "rumptious" purr and an incurable habit of flexing his claws on your knees when he sat in your lap, and Auntie Kathleen's beloved old Ali Shan.”

“Now, all one wishes is a long walk⟳ on a deserted beach, as the waves leap⟳ and howl, pounding the shore to the beat⟳ of a rumptious percussion beat⟳. Music and Nature are at play⟳.”

CEFR level