A rumpus is an uproar or tumult. Releasing a litter of excited puppies into a kindergarten class would certainly cause a rumpus. Both sides behaved almost like adults when it would have been easier to go down to a schoolyard rumpus. Find out which words work together and create more natural English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app. He came to the top of the stairs with a lamp in his hand and wanted to know what rumpus were. And despite everything he has said about his legacy, his wild rump will never end. We knew that all he wanted was to go to the bridge, and then there would be the biggest type of rumpus. While a rumpus can be noisy and impetuous, like rumpus under a pi±ata in the middle of a big birthday party, others take the form of fiery arguments. This type of rumpus can occur, for example, during a political scandal. Experts suspect that informal rumpus may have originated from the now obsolete robust word, which means “impetuous or noisy.” In the mid-twentieth century, children`s playrooms were called “rumpus rooms”. They found out that we were seeing each other secretly, and they made a fuss about it.

I guess now that Dad has an argument with Mr Thatcher, I will never see him again. I was ready to take it away if she refused, but I was ill-prepared for the trunk that this calm-looking woman was stirring. His work has also been published in The Rumpus, The Millions and The Washington Independent Review of Books. Writer Stephen Elliot founded his club two years ago through The Rumpus, the online cultural magazine he founded. Join our community to access the latest language learning and assessment tips from Oxford University Press! Find the answers online with Practical English Usage, your essential guide to English language problems.