rumptious meaning (humorous): definition

rumptious

adj

Etymology Blend of rump (“the buttocks”) + scrumptious. Compare rumpalicious.

Humorous, Nonstandard Of a person's buttocks: large, well-shaped.

I am not one to scourge such a rumptious and beautiful arse such as you are quite properly displaying to us now, my dear. Push it out more, and you also, Caroline. More, girls, more! Ah, yes indeed, that is better. What vaselike forms their hips take, do they not, Jonathan?1986, Miss Martin: Or, an Account of Impassioned Desires Told by an Anonymous but Unhindered Witness Thereto, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 66:
Inebriated, she didn't feel a thing, thinking she was being pinched and stroked, when he inserted a small needle into her rumptious tush, putting her soundly to sleep.2006, Norman Kelley, “The Messenger of Soulsville”, in George Pelecanos, editor, D.C. Noir, New York, N.Y.: Akashic Books, →ISBN, page 280:

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Due to the overwhelming interest—throughout human history, it seems—in this particular feature of our anatomy, I feel, before we look at exercises, a special word must be given to these rumptious rounds of misery and delight.2015, David Knox, Body School: A New Guide to Improved Movement in Daily Life, Aachen: Meyer & Meyer Sport, →ISBN, page 83:

adj

Etymology From rumption (“an uproar, commotion”) + -ous. Probably related to polrumptious.

Dialectal Energetic, rowdy, uproarious.

But to speak in that rumptious manner! No! I can't never believe it! She was sich a simple one, was our Hannah—allays ready to cry if spoke to, almost a natural as you may say, but never 'aughty or proud.1896, Florence Marryat, The Strange Transfiguration of Hannah Stubbs, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, page 248:
In the inner office behind the closed door John Senior could be heard moving restlessly about. ¶ "Old man's rumptious!" said Fannie over her shoulder. ¶ But John Senior was more than rumptious. He was mad—mad all through at the turn of Fate that had dropped his letter to Moulton into Eben Braithwaite's outstretched hand. . . . He flung himself into a chair and hunched his shoulders and looked at it.1919, Jennette Lee, chapter XVI, in The Rain-Coat Girl, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, published 1922, page 101:

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In the hands of a skillful writer, the South's colorful cast of genteel aristocrats, coquettish belles, devoted mammies, and rumptious hill folk could be enchanting.1988, Daniel E. Sutherland, The Confederate Carpetbaggers, Baton Rouge, L.A.; London: Louisiana State University Press, →ISBN, page 259:
They were Sandy, a large Orlando-like chap with what we called a "rumptious" purr and an incurable habit of flexing his claws on your knees when he sat in your lap, and Auntie Kathleen's beloved old Ali Shan.2000, Madeline Macdonald, The Last Year of the Gang, Oxford: ISIS Publishing Ltd, published 2001, →ISBN, page 139:
Now, all one wishes is a long walk on a deserted beach, as the waves leap and howl, pounding the shore to the beat of a rumptious percussion beat. Music and Nature are at play.2001 August 9, Ethel Da Costa, “Monsoon moods”, in The Times of India, Mumbai: Bennet, Coleman & Co., Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5, column 2: