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rampageous

American  
[ram-pay-juhs] / ræmˈpeɪ dʒəs /

adjective

  1. violent; unruly; boisterous.


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Etymology

Origin of rampageous

First recorded in 1815–25; rampage + -ous

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In front of his desk sits a scale model of the animal that barged its way onstage during his rampageous 2007 production of Ionesco's Rhinoceros; next to it is a memento from Jerusalem.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 31, 2011

To Betty Hutton, 25, raucous, rampageous cinemactress; and Theodore Briskin, 28: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood.

From Time Magazine Archive

The play first chronicles a honeymoon in Scranton complicated by Mother's rampageous arrival from New York; it then chronicles household arrangements in New York dislocated by Mother's inching her way into the household.

From Time Magazine Archive

School do keep him a bit quiet in the week, but Sundays he's just rampageous!'

From Dwell Deep or Hilda Thorn's Life Story by Amy Le Feuvre

Indeed, the Adjutant frequently declared that "but for that rampageous young Celt, Carter would never be in trouble."

From Harper's Round Table, September 10, 1895 by Various

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