- 1喧鬧、吵鬧、一陣騷動
A rumpus is a lot of noise, the kind people make when they are angry with each other, or when children are tearing around a room. Someone “kicks up a rumpus” — they make a noisy fuss. It is informal, and a little old-fashioned: a parent or a storybook might say it; a business report probably would not. Though actually, in American homes you still hear rumpus room: a downstairs room where kids can play and be loud. That shows the heart of the word is noisy disorder, not only a fight. A rumpus can be a quarrel, but it can also be cheerful chaos. We do not know where the word first came from. It shows up around 1745, and it may just have been made because it sounded rowdy — perhaps a twist on older words like or rumbustical (“, noisy”) with a Latin-looking -us stuck on. The verb came later, around 1839, but the noun is the one you will meet.
組成Unknown. First use around 1745. Perhaps an arbitrary formation — a word people made because it sounded right. Possibly an alteration of rumbustical or rumbustious (“boisterous, noisy”) + Latin -us. The verb appears around 1839.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
rumpusnoun/ˈɹʌm.pəs/
- 1
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."
- But as his rumpus with Mr. Christie entered its second and third rounds, Mr. Rubio appeared to abandon that game plan.
- 2
A rumpus room.
rumpusverb/ˈɹʌm.pəs/
- 1
informalTo 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.
- ... and Marie routed up Mammy nights, and rumpussed and scolded, with more energy than ever, all day, on the strength of this new misery.
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