rumpusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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.

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名詞

rumpus (plural rumpuses)

1. A noisy, sometimes violent disturbance; noise and confusion; a noisy quarrel or brawl.

   Synonyms: ruckus, turmoil

   • 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 166:

     "I'd like to know how on earth we are going to finish the case with all this umptydoodle rumpus going on."

   • 2016 February 7, Michael Barbaro, “Once Impervious, Marco Rubio Is Diminished by a Caustic Chris Christie”, in The New York Times‎:

     But as his rumpus with Mr. Christie entered its second and third rounds, Mr. Rubio appeared to abandon that game plan.

   • 2020 February 12, Jack Met, Adam Met, Ryan Met, “Bang!”, in OK Orchestra‎, performed by AJR:

     I get up, I get down, and I'm jumping around / And the rumpus and ruckus are comfortable now / Been a hell of a ride, but I'm thinking it's time to grow / Bang! Bang! Bang!

2. (New Zealand, Australia, Canada) A rumpus room.

動詞

rumpus (third-person singular simple present rumpuses, present participle rumpusing, simple past and past participle rumpused or rumpussed)

1. (informal, intransitive) To cause a noisy disturbance or commotion.
   • 1851, James Russell Lowell, Unhappy Mr. Knott, page 291:

     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.

   • 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, page 81:

     ... and Marie routed up Mammy nights, and rumpussed and scolded, with more energy than ever, all day, on the strength of this new misery.

   • 1876, Julie P. Smith, His Young Wife, A Novel, page 56:

     She had been rumpusing with the poker and tongs during the dialogue between the guests, and she enforced her order by thrusting the poker towards the distant corner where the girl sat, as she spoke.

   • 2019, Sam Pickering, The World Was My Garden, Too:

     Instead she rumpuses about waving her legs in the air and spinning her feet doing three exercises she dubs "Tumbleweed, Clothespin, and Wind Farm."

派生語

参考

• romp

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈrʊm.pʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈrum.pus]

名詞

rumpus m (genitive rumpī); second declension

1. A vine branch

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

同意語

• trādux

派生語

• rumpōtinētum
• rumpōtinus

参照

• “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.