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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]

ruckus (plural ruckuses)

  1. A raucous disturbance and/or commotion.
  2. A row, fight.

a noisy disturbance and/or commotion

a row, fight

  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “ruckus”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
  2. ^ 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.