rumpus

1764, of unknown origin; "prob. a fanciful formation" [OED]; possibly an alteration of rumbustical or rumbustious (“boisterous, noisy”) + Latin -us (“nominative suffix”).

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rumpus (plural rumpuses)

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

• ruckus, turmoil

• romp

Unknown.[1]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈrum.pus/, [ˈrʊmpʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈrum.pus/, [ˈrumpus]

rumpus m (genitive rumpī); second declension

1. A vine branch

Second-declension noun.

• trādux

• rumpōtinētum
• rumpōtinus

• “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.