rumpus

== English == === Etymology === 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. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɹʌm.pəs/ Rhymes: -ʌmpəs === Noun === rumpus (countable and uncountable, plural rumpuses) A noisy, sometimes violent disturbance; noise and confusion; a noisy quarrel or brawl. Synonyms: ruckus, turmoil (New Zealand, Australia, Canada) A rumpus room. === Verb === rumpus (third-person singular simple present rumpuses, present participle rumpusing, simple past and past participle rumpused or rumpussed) (informal, intransitive) To cause a noisy disturbance or commotion. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === See also === romp == Latin == === Etymology === Unknown. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈrʊm.pʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈrum.pus] === Noun === rumpus m (genitive rumpī); second declension A vine branch ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Synonyms ==== trādux ==== Derived terms ==== rumpōtinētum rumpōtinus === References === “rumpus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “rumpus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.