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Recorded since 1890; probably a blend of ruction (“disturbance”) + rumpus (“disturbance, fracas”).
ruckus (plural ruckuses)
- A noisy disturbance and/or commotion.
- 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)
- Maori: tutūnga o te puehu
- Plautdietsch: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: zamieszanie (pl) n
- Portuguese: alvoroço (pt) m, tumulto (pt) m
- Russian: суматоха (ru) f (sumatoxa), шум (ru) m (šum), гам (ru) m (gam), волнения (ru) n pl (volnenija), кипеш (ru) m (kipeš) (slang)
- Spanish: bullicio (es) m, alboroto (es) m, gresca f, tremolina (es) f, batahola (es) f, jaleo (es) m, follón (es) m
- Welsh: helynt f, ffrwgwd m, stŵr m
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a row, fight
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese: 爭吵 / 争吵 (zh) (zhēngchǎo), 爭執 / 争执 (zh) (zhēngzhí)
- Dutch: oproer (nl) n, opstoot (nl) m, rel (nl) (letje)
- Faroese: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: tappelu (fi), käsirysy (fi)
- French: grabuge (fr) m, commotion (fr) f
- Galician: please add this translation if you can
- German: Krawall (de) m
- Greek: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: veszekedés (hu), vita (hu), perpatvar (hu), csihi-puhi (hu), haddelhadd (hu)
- Italian: please add this translation if you can
- 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: потасовка (ru) f (potasovka), скандал (ru) m (skandal), разборка (ru) f (razborka) (slang)
- Slovene: please add this translation if you can
- Spanish: trifulca (es) f, pelotera (es) f, gresca f
- Swedish: kalabalik (sv) c
- Welsh: ffrae f, cerydd m
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- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “ruckus”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
