ruckus - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)
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Recorded since 1890; probably a blend of ruction (“disturbance”) + rumpus (“disturbance, fracas”) - potentially with influence from raucous (“rowdy, hoarse”), from Latin raucus (“rough, hoarse”). [1]
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɹʌkəs/
- Rhymes: -ʌkəs
- (Southern US) IPA(key): /ˈɹukəs/[2]
ruckus (plural ruckuses)
- A raucous disturbance and/or commotion.
- 2006 July 6, Charlie Day & Glenn Howerton & Rob McElhenney, “Dennis and Dee Go on Welfare” (3:13 from the start), in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia[2], season 2, episode 3, spoken by Frank Reynolds (Danny DeVito):
“Hey, hey, hey, what's the ruckus? I'm trying to conduct important business back there.” “We finished with the tile. And now we're trying to move the pool table back.” “All right, all right, all right. Have you done the urinal? Because the urinal, you flush it, and it sprays all over the place.”
- 2006 July 6, Charlie Day & Glenn Howerton & Rob McElhenney, “Dennis and Dee Go on Welfare” (3:13 from the start), in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia[2], season 2, episode 3, spoken by Frank Reynolds (Danny DeVito):
- A row, fight.
a noisy disturbance and/or commotion
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: commoció f, aldarull (ca) m
- Chinese: 騷動 / 骚动 (zh) (sāodòng), 骚动 (zh) (sāodòng)
- Dutch: oproer (nl), commotie (nl), lawaai (nl), ophef (nl)
- Faroese: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: kohu (fi), meteli (fi), metakka (fi)
- French: chahut (fr) m
- Galician: please add this translation if you can
- German: Tumult (de) m, Spektakel (de) n, Tohuwabohu (de) m, Theater (de) n, Affentheater (de) n, Wirrwarr (de) m, Zirkus (de) m
- Greek: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: lárma (hu), zűrzavar (hu), ricsaj (hu), zenebona (hu),felfordulás (hu), kavarodás (hu), összevisszaság (hu), hűhó (hu), kalamajka (hu), zavargás (hu), ramazúri (hu), rumli (hu), zrí (hu)
- Māori: tutūnga o te puehu
- Plautdietsch: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: zamieszanie (pl) n
- Portuguese: alvoroço (pt) m, tumulto (pt) m
- Russian: сумато́ха (ru) f (sumatóxa), шум (ru) m (šum), гам (ru) m (gam), волне́ния (ru) n pl (volnénija), ки́пеш (ru) m (kípeš) (slang)
- Spanish: bullicio (es) m, alboroto (es) m, gresca f, tremolina (es) f, batahola (es) f, jaleo (es) m, follón (es) m
- Swedish: oväsen (sv) n,
- Welsh: helynt f, ffrwgwd m, stŵr m
a row, fight
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
Faroese: please add this translation if you can
Galician: please add this translation if you can
Greek: please add this translation if you can
Hungarian: veszekedés (hu), vita (hu), perpatvar (hu), csihi-puhi (hu), haddelhadd (hu)
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian: please add this translation if you can
Plautdietsch: please add this translation if you can
Russian: потасо́вка (ru) f (potasóvka), сканда́л (ru) m (skandál), разбо́рка (ru) f (razbórka) (slang)
Slovene: please add this translation if you can
Swedish: kalabalik (sv) c, uppståndelse (sv) c
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “ruckus”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- ^ McDavid, Raven Ioor Jr. (1943), “42. Review of Hall 1942: _The Phonetics of Great Smoky Mountain Speech_”, in William A. Kretzschmar, Jr., editor, Dialects in culture: essays in general dialectology[1], University, Alabama: The University of Alabama Press, published 1979, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 321.
- “ruckus” in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing), →OCLC.