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Definition of Bustle

1. Noun. A rapid active commotion.

2. Verb. Move or cause to move energetically or busily. "The streets bustle with crowds"; "The cheerleaders bustled about excitingly before their performance"

3. Noun. A framework worn at the back below the waist for giving fullness to a woman's skirt.

Definition of Bustle

1. v. i. To move noisily; to be rudely active; to move in a way to cause agitation or disturbance; as, to bustle through a crowd.

2. n. Great stir; agitation; tumult from stirring or excitement.

3. n. A kind of pad or cushion worn on the back below the waist, by women, to give fullness to the skirts; -- called also bishop, and tournure.

Definition of Bustle

1. Noun. An excited activity; a stir. ¹

2. Noun. (computing) A cover to protect and hide the back panel of a computer or other office machine. ¹

3. Noun. (obsolete) A frame worn underneath a woman's skirt. ¹

4. Verb. To move busily and energetically with fussiness (often followed by ''about''). ¹

5. Verb. To teem or abound (usually followed by ''with''); to exhibit an energetic and active abundance (of a thing). ''See also'' '''bustle with'''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bustle

1. to move energetically [v -TLED, -TLING, -TLES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bustle

busticate busticated busticates busticating bustics bustier bustiers bustiest bustin' bustiness

bustinesses busting bustings bustitution bustitutions bustle (current term) bustle about bustle with bustled bustled with

bustler bustlers bustles bustles with bustline bustlines bustling bustling with bustlingly busto

Literary usage of Bustle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The British Essayists;: With Prefaces, Historical and Biographical, by Alexander Chalmers (1808)
"measures of Mr. bustle, have, I understand, private., stirred up and supported those law-suits in which hia public spirit has involved him. ..."

2. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the by Washington Irving, Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville (1868)
"A mock bustle. — Sham fires at night. — Warlike precautions. — Dangers of a night attack. — A panic among horses. — Cautious inarch. — The Beer Springs. ..."

3. A Study of the Blast Furnace by Harbison-Walker Refractories Company (1911)
"Tuyere Stock — As indicated on page 18 this carries the blast from the bustle pipe to the blow-pipe. It is usually in two sections of cast iron and has a 2" ..."

4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1873)
"In the city, as in the hive, we have the busy work, the hum, the bustle, the work assigned to each, and so on. If the word “city” was simply changed into ..."

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