Rumptious
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Of a person's buttocks: large, well-shaped. humorous, nonstandard
"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?"
- 2 Energetic, rowdy, uproarious. dialectal
"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."
Example
More 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?"
Etymology
Blend of rump (“the buttocks”) + scrumptious. Compare rumpalicious.
From rumption (“an uproar, commotion”) + -ous. Probably related to polrumptious.
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