Bustle

Definition: Bustle

Bustle

Noun

1. A rapid bustling commotion.

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

Verb

1. Move or cause to move energetically or busily; "The cheerleaders bustled about excitingly before their performance".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bustle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

Note: Bustle \Bus"tle\ (b[u^]s"s'l), intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Bustled(-s'ld); personal pronoun & vb.n. Bustling(-sl[i^]ng).]. (references)

Synonyms: Bustle

Activity

Verb: be active; Adjective: busy oneself in; stir, stir about, stir one's stumps; bestir oneself, rouse oneself; speed, hasten, peg away, lay about one, bustle, fuss; raise up, kick up a dust; push; make a push, make a fuss, make a stir; go ahead, push forward; fight one's way, elbow one's way; make progress; toll; (labor); plod, persist; (persevere) a; keep up the ball, keep the pot boiling.

Movement, bustle, stir, fuss, ado, bother, pottering, fidget, fidgetiness; flurry; (haste).

Agitation

Turbulence, perturbation; commotion, turmoil, disquiet; tumult, tumultuation; hubbub, rout, bustle, fuss, racket, subsultus, staggers, megrims, epilepsy, fits; carphology, chorea, floccillation, the jerks, St. Vitus's dance, tilmus.

Throb, pulsate, beat, palpitate, go pitapat; flutter, flitter, flicker, bicker; bustle.

Clothing

Acket, vest, jerkin, waistcoat, doublet, camisole, gabardine; kilt, jupe, crinoline, bustle, panier, skirt, apron, pinafore; bloomer, bloomers; chaqueta, songtag, tablier.

Haste

Verb: haste, hasten; make haste, make a dash; Noun: hurry on, dash on, whip on, push on, press on, press forward; hurry, skurry, scuttle along, barrel along, bundle on, dart to and fro, bustle, flutter, scramble; plunge, plunge headlong; dash off; rush; (violence); express.

Noun: haste, urgency; despatch, dispatch; acceleration, spurt, spirt, forced march, rush, dash; speed, velocity; precipitancy, precipitation, precipitousness; Adjective: impetuosity; brusquerie; hurry, drive, scramble, bustle, fuss, fidget, flurry, flutter, splutter.

Physical Energy

Activity, agitation, effervescence; ferment, fermentation; ebullition, splutter, perturbation, stir, bustle; voluntary energy; quicksilver.

Crosswords: Bustle

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now, (Stairway to heaven; performing artist: Led Zeppelin)

Aunt Sallie's Wonderful Bustle (1901)

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Books

• Aunt Hilarity's Bustle (reference)

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Music

• Down II: A Bustle in Your Hedgerow (reference)

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High Tech

• Bustle Kit for 9142 Rack (reference)

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Amid city bustle and skyscrapers woman at backyard fence of farm house is talking to another woman. Credit: Library of Congress.

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There is always a look of consciousness or bustle when people come in a way which they know to be beneath them

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Economic History

Korea

Korea's retail sector continues to bustle, with 2001 market activity reaching $99 billion, a healthy 6.6% growth over its 2000 level. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "bustle": bustle about ♦ bustle around ♦ bustle in ♦ bustle main offtake ♦ bustle out ♦ bustle pipe ♦ bustle up ♦ hustle and bustle. Additional references.

Beginning with "bustle": bustle-backed.

Ending with "bustle": a-bustle, hustle-bustle.

Albanian

rrëmujë (alarm, clutter, disarray, disorder, disturbance, dust, farrago, hash, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, huddle, hugger mugger, jumble, litter, mess, mix up, moil, muss, pandemonium, pell mell, pie, pother, roistering, snafu, tangle, topsy turvy, topsy-turvydom, tumble, upheaval, upset, welter), nxitoj (accelerate, chase, get a move on, hasten, hie, hotfoot, hurry, hurry up, hustle, pelt, post, run, skip, speed up), nxitim (acceleration, haste, hastiness, hurry, hustle, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitation, rapidity, rush), ngutem (bustle about, gallop, hasten, hurry, hustle, rush, skip). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نشاط صاخب, ‏اهتاج, ‏إستحث (arouse, urge), ‏إستعجل (dash, hasten, press, spring, surge), ‏أرداف مستعارة, ‏رفد لفستاني, ‏ردف مستعار حشوة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

суматоха (commotion, flurry, helter-skelter, hurry, mix up, perturbation, pother, rumpus, stirabout), суетня (alarms and excursions, hoopla, pother, scurry), разшавам се, турнюр, голямо оживление, давам зор на. (various references)

Chinese 

熙来�"�往. (various references)

Czech

spìch (haste, hurry, hurry-scurry, rush, speed), shon (circus, clutter, hustle, race, rush, scramble), honzík u šatù. (various references)

Danish

tvierne er via blaestroer forbundet til den cirkulaere blaeseledning (the tuyere stock joins the tuyeres to a circular pipe known as the bustle main(or bustle pipe)), hals (neck). (various references)

Dutch

verbindingsstuk (bustle main offtake, connecting piece, neck, nipple), hetewindleiding (bustle pipe, hot blast pipe), de blaasmonden zijn door blaaspijpen verbonden met een ringvormige luchtleiding,de hetewind/ringleiding (the tuyere stock joins the tuyeres to a circular pipe known as the bustle main(or bustle pipe)). (various references)

Farsi 

هایهو, کوشش (Assay, Attempt, Effort, Endeavor, Fist, Labor, Muss, Scramble, Strain, Stretch, Trial, Try, Tug), تقلایاکشمکش کردن , تقلا (Agony, Bout, Effort, Exertion, Muss, Scrabble, Scramble, Slog, Strain, Stress, Strife, Tug, Wrestle), جنبش (Braid, Cause, Commotion, Flicker, Jar, Jiggle, Locomotion, Motion, Move, Movement, Rock, Stir, Tremor, Vibration), شلوغی (Chaos, Crowd, Jumble), شلوغ کردن (Jam). (various references)

Finnish

vilske (flurry), vilinä (commotion), touhuta (be busy), touhu (flurry, fuss), puuhata (be busy, work for), hyörinä (flurry, hurry), hyöriä (be busy), hommata (arrange, be busy, get, procure), homma (care, duty, he has too many things on his hands, he is too busy, undertaking), hääriä (be busy), aherrus (striving, toil). (various references)

French

tournure, se démener, s'affairer. (various references)

German

betrieb (business, carried on, company, concern, deadausser, down, enterprise, factory, management, mode, operating, operation, prosecuted, running, undertaking, working, works). (various references)

Greek 

σπεώδω πολυασχολώσ, στήριγμα φούστασ, φασαρία (ado, bedlam, commotion, din, fracas, fuss, hassle, hob, nuisance, pother, rowdiness, trouble), ταραχή (agitation, apprehension, coil, commotion, consternation, disturbance, flurry, fluster, flutter, frenzy, fuss, outbreak, perturbation, pother, restlessness, riot, row, ruction, ruffle, rumpus, scrimmage, stir, trepidation, trouble, turbulence, turmoil, uproar, welter). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"תרוצץ (buzz, chase around, run around), �"מול�" (ado, commotion, din, fray, fussiness, hubbub, hurly burly, hustle, noise, roar, tempest). (various references)

Hungarian

nyüzsgés (hive, moseying). (various references)

Indonesian

tergesa-gesa (cursorily, haste, hie, hurry, worry), rancangan rok, kesibukan (rush, rushing), kerepotan (very busy). (various references)

Italian

trambusto (commotion, confusion, fuss, hustle, racket, stir, turmoil), movimento (activity, flow, motion, move, movement, stir, sweep, tempo), darsi da fare (hustling), attivit� (activity, asset, assets, busyness, industry, play, stream), armeggiare (fumble, fuss, intrigue), agitarsi (agitate, bestir oneself, fidget, flounder, flutter, fuss, rain, rainfall, ruffle, shake, stir, tingle, toss, tumble, twitch, wag). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

賑わい (activity, crowd, prosperity, turnout), 腰�"て , 繁華 (prosperity), 取り込み事 (confusion), 倉皇　 (hurry), 倉皇 (hurry). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

そう�"う (achievement, armored, conduct, deportment, document transmission, draft, efficacy, fruition, hatch, hatchway, hurry, manuscript, meanwhile, notes, plain food, rousing, running a wheeled vehicle, simple living, success, traveling), にぎわい (activity, crowd, prosperity, turnout), �"しあて, は�"か (distribution price, half price, half ripe, insufficiency, low shoes, prosperity, shoes, tanka appendage to a long poem), とり�"み�"と (confusion). (various references)

Manx

tarroosley, siyr (haste, hurry, hurrying), musthaa (carry on, display, excitement, flap, fluster, fuss, hullabaloo, muster, pomposity, pompousness, row, rumpus, shindy, stir, strife, tumult), cooylym. (various references)

Norwegian

travelhet. (various references)

Pig Latin

ustlebay.(various references)

Portuguese

pressa (ado, haste, hastiness, hurry, hustle, rustle, scurry, speed), mexer-se (mosey, stir), grande atividade, detetive (bloodhound, detective, dick, ferret, plainclothes man), azáfama (whirl), atropelo (hustle, scramble, trampling, whirl), apressar (accelerate, anticipate, expedite, haste, hasten, hurry, hustle, press, quicken, rush, speed, urge), alvoroço (ado, affray, agitation, commotion, donnybrook, flutter, rampage, roughhouse, rout, to-do, tumult), alvoroçar-se, agitar (abet, agitate, alarm, beat, brandish, churn, cob, commove, convulse, dimple, discompose, excite, faze, ferment, flap, flick, fling, flounce, flourish, flurry, flutter, fret, incite, jar, jingle, jounce, moot, perturb, pulsate, quiver, ripple, shake, stir, stir up, sway, swing, switch, toss, ventilate, waggle, wave, whip up, whisk). (various references)

Romanian

grãbi (accelerate, anticipate, expedite, force, forward, hasten, hurry, hustle, mend one's pace, precipitate, press, push, push on, quicken, rush, smarten up, speed, spur, wing), agita (agitate, arouse, brandish, churn, excite, fidget, flirt, flourish, flurry, flutter, fret, fume, incite, raise, rouse, ruffle, shake, shake up, shock, stir, trouble, vex, wag, waggle, wave, wriggle), agitaţie (ado, agitation, clutter, commotion, dusty, emotion, excitement, ferment, fermentation, fever, flurry, flutter, fret, go, haste, inquietude, nervousness, perturbation, restlessness, riotousness, roughness, squirm, stir, trepidation, unrest, vexation, working), fâţâi (fuss, wag), foi (fidget, fuss, hesitate), forfotã (clutter, fuss), forfoti (clutter, flutter, fuss, simmer), frãmânta (agitate, beat, brake, churn, debate, fret, fuss, knead, puddle, pug, ride, stamp, stir, temper, torment, torture, worry), freamãt (commotion, hum, lisp, murmur, quiver, riot, rioting, riotousness, roaring, rush, rustle, rustling, sough, stir, storm, thrill, tremor, tumult, uproar, vibration, whir), învãlmãşealã (confusion, crowd, hubbub, scrimmage, scuffle, scurry, squash, stampede, stir, struggle, throng, turmoil), gãlãgie (Babel, bluster, brawling, clamor, clamour, din, discord, fuss, hubbub, hurly burly, jangle, noise, racket, rattle, rhubarb, rioting, row, stir, to-do, tumult), zori (cock crow, crowd, daybreak, daylight, dayspring, hasten, hurry, hustle, morning, press, quicken, reveille, rush, spur, spur on, urge), mişcã (come on, get a move on, look lively, now then), mişcare (activity, agitation, an up stroke, change, circulation, commotion, gesture, go, locomotion, motion, move, movement, revolt, riotousness, sign, stir, stroke, waggle, wave), neastâmpãr (agitation, disquietude, fidget), se agita (agitate, billow, ferment, fluster, flutter, fret, fuss, hitch, rustle, seethe, squirm, toss, tumble, vibrate, wag), turnurã (turn), vârtej (backwash, bent, Eddy, giddiness, gulf, gyration, rotation, swirl, twirl, vortex, whirl, wind spout), vãlmãşag (confusion, disorder), zarvã (ado, affray, altercation, bobbery, brawling, clutter, din, dispute, dust, fuss, hubbub, kerfuffle, noise, pother, racket, riot, row, rumpus, scandal, to-do, tumult, turmoil, uproar), zgomot (ado, bruit, clamor, clamour, dash, din, fuss, hubbub, murmur, noise, peal, racket, rattling, roll, row, rumpus, shindy, shine, shouting, slam, sound, splutter, to-do, tumult, uproar), fremãta (Bate, fuss, murmur, roar, rustle, sough). (various references)

Russian 

суматоха (clutter, fuss, helter-skelter, hurry-scurry, jumble, kerfuffle, muss, razzle, razzle-dazzle, ruffle, rumpus, splutter, to-do, tumult, tumults, turmoil), суета (ado, bustling, fuss, kerfuffle, scurry, stir, to-do, vanity), суетиться суета, суетиться (fidget, fidget with, fuss, make a fuss, trot about), спешить (be in a hurry, get a move on, hasten, hie, look alive, make haste, pelt, rushed, rushing, speed). (various references)

Scottish

broighleadh, uainneart, tartar (clamour, noise), tailmrich, ùinich (hurry), ùbraid (confusion). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

užurbanost (ado, flurry, hastiness, hurry), žuriti (hie, hurry, rush), žurba (bustling, haste, hurry, hurry-scurry, rush, scramble, swiftness). (various references)

Spanish

bullicio (ado, hassle, hustle, uproar). (various references)

Swedish

brådska (haste, hastiness, hastle, hurry, precipitance, precipitation, press, rush). (various references)

Turkish

telaş etmek, telaş (ado, alarm, commotion, directness, discomposure, disturbance, excitement, ferment, fever, flap, flurry, flutter, fume, fuss, fussiness, haste, hastiness, helter-skelter, hurry, panic, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitation, pucker, racket, ruffle, rush, stir, storm, taking, tingle, tizzy, to-do, turmoil, whirl), koşuşturmak (bustle about, hustle, rush about, scour, scour about, sprint), koşuşturma (commotion, hustle and bustle, rush, sprint, whirl), faaliyet (action, activity, business, doing, doings, service, strenuousness), acele (discomposedly, dispatch, early, expedition, fast, flying, haste, hastily, hasty, hotfoot, hurried, hurriedly, hurry, hurry up, in a hurry, in haste, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitate, press, pressing, quick, rapid, rush, speedy, swift, too previous, urgency, urgent, whirl). (various references)

Turkmen 

gaяmalaюmak (hurry about). (various references)

Ukrainian

сутичка (affair, affront, bump, clash, collision, conflict, encounter, fight, fighting, fray, impingement, jostle, mix in, rencontre, rencounter, scramble, scrimmage, scrummage, shock, skirmish, tilt), тривожити (annoy, discommode, hurry, trouble), галас (ado, affray, ballyhoo, boom, breeze, broil, clamor, clamour, clang, hullabaloo, noise, outcry, ruckus), метушня (ado, alarm, buzz, clutter, flurry, fuss, helter-skelter, hurly burly, muss, razzle, razzle-dazzle, romps, rough and tumble, splutter, stir, stirabout, to-do, turmoil, whirl), метушитися (clutter, fidget, fluster, fuss, fuss about, scurry, trot about), битися (battle, combat, fight, pulse, scuffle, skirmish, spar, struggle, wrestle), підганяти (fit on, flog, goad, hurry, prod, push, touch up, whip), поспішати (be in haste, hasten, hie, hurry, push forward, scurry, speed, swiften). (various references)

Vietnamese 

bữa chén no say (buster), tiêng om xòm, sự vội v� ng (haste, hastiness, hurry, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitation), sự rộn r� ng (pulsation), sự lăng xăng tiếng �"n � o, sự hối hả (hurry, press), cái kỳ lạ bữa tiệc linh đình (buster). (various references)

Welsh

ystw+r (fuss, noise, stir), trybestod (commotion, fuss), mwstwr (commotion, muster), ffwdanu (fuss), ffwdan (ado, flurry, fuss), ffrwst (haste, hurry). (various references)

tumultuor, tumultus. (various references)

Buschel. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "bustle": bustled, bustles. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Bustle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bastile, bastle, Bestley, bissle, Bonstelle, Bosola, Bosslet, buscle, bussel, bustce, buste, bustee, Bustek, bustler, bustly, Butale, Butele, Butley, Buzalek, buzuluk. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: bluest, bluets, butles, sublet, subtle.

-1 letter: belts, blest, blets, blues, bluet, butes, butle, lubes, lutes, tubes, tules.

-2 letters: bels, belt, best, bets, blet, blue, bust, bute, buts, lest, lets, lube, lues, lust, lute, slub, slue, stub, suet, tels, tube, tubs, tule.

-3 letters: bel, bet, bus, but, els, let, leu, sel, set, sub, sue, tel, tub, use, uts.

-4 letters: be, el.

+1 letter: bluster, boletus, bullets, bustled, bustles, butlers, stubble, stumble, sublate, sublets, subtile, subtler, sunbelt, tubules, tumbles, unbelts, unblest.

+2 letters: abluents, absolute, ballutes, baluster, bluestem, bluffest, bluntest, blurters, blusters, blustery, bulblets, bulgiest, bulkiest, bulliest, burliest, bustline, doublets, gustable, humblest, obtusely, outbless, rustable, stubbled, stubbles, stumbled, stumbler, stumbles, sublated, sublates, subtiler, subtitle, subtlest, subtlety, subulate, suitable, sunbelts, tableaus, troubles, tubeless, tubulose, tumblers, tumbrels, unstable, unsubtle.