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Definition of Bustling
1. Adjective. Full of energetic and noisy activity. "A bustling city"
Definition of Bustling
1. a. Agitated; noisy; tumultuous; characterized by confused activity; as, a bustling crowd.
Definition of Bustling
1. Verb. (present participle of bustle) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bustling
1. bustle [v] - See also: bustle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bustling
Literary usage of Bustling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1904)
"Railroads, newspapers, politics, corporations, bosses, gangs and all the bustling,
contending forces about us are here in profusion. ..."
2. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell (1826)
"... animated, and bustling mind never suffered conversation to stagnate; and Mrs.
Sheridan was .a most agreeable companion to an intellectual man. ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"Very pleasant is the picture Boswell gives of his bustling about him with a kind
of filial fondness at the Literary Club, and flattering the old man's pride ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1902)
"In their place reigned a continuous bustling activity about the details of the
daily life of the Army, and a hazy confidence that British good fortune and ..."
5. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1895)
"... were seen bustling about in watery media were described and labelled as animals.
No movement was found in the higher plants which were studied with the ..."
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