rumption
nounEtymology Probably from rumpus + -tion.
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Dialectal A loud disturbance; a rumpus, uproar.
- I leap to my feet with a rumption, turning over the bench where I'm sitting. "But," I say, looking to both sides of me in shock.2015, Katherine Howe, The Appearance of Annie van Sinderen, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 203:
- Derived terms
- polrumptious, rumptious
- Related terms
- ruction