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Definition of Bustle about
1. Verb. Move or cause to move energetically or busily. "The streets bustle about with crowds"; "The cheerleaders bustled about excitingly before their performance"
Generic synonyms: Move
Entails: Belt Along, Bucket Along, Cannonball Along, Hasten, Hie, Hotfoot, Pelt Along, Race, Rush, Rush Along, Speed, Step On It
Derivative terms: Bustle, Hustle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bustle About
Literary usage of Bustle about
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero by Conyers Middleton (1839)
"But after all this bustle about a dictator, there seems to have been no great
reason for being much A TRB "no afraid of it at this time ; for the cic. ..."
2. The Various Writings of Cornelius Mathews by Cornelius Mathews (1863)
"Inspector of staves—that was the office ; and he must bustle about, bustle
about—and move the very foundations of the island but he would have it. ..."
3. The Mediaeval Mind: A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in by Henry Osborn Taylor (1919)
"We truly, who like Martha bustle about, and, like Martha, minister, neither bustle
about for Christ nor minister to Him. For if in such bustling ministry ..."
4. The Journal of Health (1830)
"... according to the season of the year ; and if she could by any means be induced
to sweep her room, or bustle about some other domestic concerns for about ..."
5. Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society by Gypsy Lore Society (1889)
"To dance and bustle about, To turn and cross ; chas ': And, formed in a wheel,
Dance ye without stopping. Gypsy-girls, gay and joyous, Make the dance gay, ..."
6. Contested Etymologies in the Dictionary of the Rev. W. W. Skeat by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1882)
"... account of the meaning of fuss, which signifies not eagerness to act, but
importunate bustle about matters of small consequence, much ado about nothing. ..."
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