Rumpus \Rum"pus\, n. A disturbance; noise and confusion; a quarrel. [Colloq.]
Yet another rumpus has been stirred up by France's maverick minister of health and humanitarian affairs Bernard Kouchner.
If London's upper-middle class wants better value for its Pounds 5,000 a year, it would be hard pushed to find it. Exam results nonetheless played an important part in the rumpus at St Paul's.
I don't think the ladies should get in a temper about the times, since they are the ones who started the rumpus about equality of the sexes, meaning neither sex should have any privacy from the other.
Not only do they threaten to divide Gatt's ranks, as the rumpus over workers' rights has showed.