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Definition: Bustling |
BustlingAdjective1. Full of energetic and noisy activity; "a bustling city". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bustling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Activity | Bustling; restless, restless as a hyena; fussy, fidgety, pottering; busy, busy as hen with one chicken. |
Eventuality | Eventful, stirring, bustling, full of incident; memorable, momentous, signal. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bustling |
| English words defined with "bustling": ado ♦ bustle ♦ flurry, fuss ♦ hustle ♦ Spoffish, stir. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Launching of 10,000 ton ships. Carolina Shipbuilding Company. One year ago this bustling shipyard was a river bog. Partial view of newly-constructed shipyards on the south-east Atlantic Coast, which are soon to be turning out one 10,000 ton cargo vessel e. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Madame Magloire was a little, white, fat, jolly, bustling old woman, always out of breath, caused first by her activity, and then by the asthma |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Korea | The Incheon International Airport Corporation (IIAC) is hoping that this new airport will serve as a catalyst to transform Korea into a bustling economic and tourist center. (references) |
Turkey | Slightly larger than Texas, modern Turkey spans bustling cosmopolitan centers, pastoral farming villages, barren wastelands, peaceful Aegean coastlines, and steep mountain regions. (references) | |
Korea | Most foreign companies in Seoul are located in the following four well-known districts: 1) City Hall -- the historic downtown area where the U.S. Embassy and a few Korean ministries are located; 2) Yoido -- or "Manhattan Island," which is adjacent to the Han River, where many financial firms and the National Assembly can be found; 3) Kangnam -- the expansive, bustling, new city center south of the river where one can find the World Trade Center complex and the American Chamber of Commerce in Korea; and 4) Mapo District - which is halfway between Yoido and City Hall. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Bustling" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 56.02% of the time. "Bustling" is used about 166 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 56.02% | 93 | 34,067 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 42.77% | 71 | 39,674 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.2% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 166 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "bustling": bustling with life. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bustling dress wedding | 3 |
bustling gown wedding | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "bustling"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | lëvizje (buzz, drift, flow, locomotion, motion, move, movement, removal, shifting, stir, traffic, transfer), aktiv (active, asset, lively, working). (various references) | |
Arabic | هيجان (eruption, outburst, seethe, upheaval), صخب (clamor, clamour, clatter, crash, furor, hubbub, hue and cry, hustle, mayhem, pandemonium, rattle, roar, roister, rowdiness, rush, squash, stink, uproar, vociferate), إهتياج (access, ado, agitation, bother, commotion, delirium, dither, ebullience, effervescence, excitation, exciting, ferment, fermentation, flurry, fuss, great rage, in a state, ramp, rampage, sensation, stir, willies). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | суета (amour propre, vainglory, vanity), шумен (barbaric, clamorous, knockabout, loud, loudmouthed, noisy, obstreperous, openmouthed, rackety, rambunctious, raucous, resounding, roaring, robustious, roistering, rollicking, rough and tumble, rowdy, rumbustious, slam-bang, slaphappy, smacking, tumultuary, tumultuous, turbulent, uproarious), оживен (active, alive, animate, animated, brisk, crisp, effervescent, heated, hilarious, lively, racy, roaring, rousing, rush, spirited, sprightly, stirring, thriving, vivacious). (various references) | |
Chinese | 繁華 (flourishing), 繁忙 (busy), "忙 (Bustled), 嘈 (noisy, tumultuous), 忙碌 (busy). (various references) | |
Czech | uspìchaný (hasty, hurried), rušný (busy, eventful, hectic), aktivní (active, regular). (various references) | |
Finnish | touhukas (busy, officious). (various references) | |
French | actif (buoyant, busy), énergique (busy). (various references) | |
German | hastend (scatting, scurrilous, scurrying). (various references) | |
Greek | σφριγεί από ζωή, βιαστικός (cursory, hasty). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שוקק (desirous, yearning), סואן (noisy, tempestuous). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fontoskodó (bumptious, busybody, consequential, fussy, officious, owlish, pedant, pompous, pragmatic, pragmatical, prissy, self-important, to put on a consequential air). (various references) | |
Italian | armeggiamento. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 賑やか (busy), 目まぐるしい (bewildering, dizzy, hectic), わが国 (arc, architecture, archive, archiver, argument, argyle, argyle check, be excited, creepy crawly, get nervous, hiragana for "we", hiragana for "wi", our country, our land, shuffling, slit, squirming, tremble, vagina, vulva). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | にぎやか (busy), めまぐるしい (bewildering, dizzy, hectic), わらわら (creepy crawly, shuffling, squirming). (various references) | |
Manx | tarroosagh (a thrifty person). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ustlingbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | barulhento (altisonant, blustering, clamant, clamorous, fussy, howling, judas-colored, judas-coloured, knockabout, loud, noisy, obstreperous, rackety, randy, rattling, red, riotous, roistering, rowdy, rumbustious, tumultuary, tumultuous, turbulent, uproarious, viatic), nervoso (agitated, ajar, fidgety, fussy, hysterical, jumpy, nervous, nervy, on edge, restive, skittish, tremulant, tremulous, uptight), movimentado (abuzz, active, upbeat), irrequieto (agog, bolter, fussy, impish, restive, skittish), inquieto (agitated, anxious, disquiet, fidgety, frantic, fretful, fussy, nervous, on edge, preoccupied, qualmish, restive, restless, troubled, uneasy, unquiet), espalhafatoso (flashy, fussy, garish, gaudy, loud, noisy, staring, tawdry), dominado pela ansiedade, agitado (agitated, astir, choppy, eventful, fidgety, frantic, fretful, fussy, hectic, jumpy, restless, rough, sleepless, trembling, troubled, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent, unquiet, unsettled, working). (various references) | |
Romanian | neastâmpãrat (agitated, fretting, impish, mischief, mischievous, naughty, prankish, restless). (various references) | |
Russian | суета (ado, bustle, fuss, kerfuffle, scurry, stir, to-do, vanity), суетливый (fidgety, fussy, pernickety). (various references) | |
Scottish | sùsdal (a bustling). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | užurban (busy, hasty, hurried, hurry), žurba (bustle, haste, hurry, hurry-scurry, rush, scramble, swiftness), žuran (hasty, hurried, quick, slapping). (various references) | |
Spanish | bullicioso (boisterous, knockabout, lively, noisy, rambunctious, riotous, rip roaring, rowdy, rumbustious), rebosante (brimful, brimming, overflowing), activo (abuzz, active, alert, alive, assets, bouncy, brisk, deedful, hardworking, humming, in action, spry, tangible, transitive, up and doing). (various references) | |
Swedish | jagande, jäktig, fläng (hurry, tear), fjäskig (fussy, officious). (various references) | |
Turkish | telaşlı (discomposedly, disconcerted, disconcerting, excitable, excited, feverish, flurried, fussy, hectic, hurried, uptight), hareketli (active, alive and kicking, animate, bouncing, brisk, full of action, go-go, like a jack-in-the-box, live, mobile, moving, rattling, restless, shifting, sliding, swinging, zippy), canlı (active, alive, animate, animated, beany, breezy, bright, brightly, brisk, colorful, colourful, Corky, crisp, crispy, dashing, dewy, driving, exhilarated, expressive, exuberant, feeling, fresh, full of beans, full of life, gay, genially, ginger, gingery, glowing, go-go, graphic, graphical, hearty, humming, in the flesh, inspired, life, live, lively, living, living being, living creature, lusty, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, peppy, perky, picturesque, quick, racy, rich, rousing, sappy, saturated, smart, snappy, spirited, sprightly, springy, swinging, vibrant, vital, vivacious, vivid, warm, with it, zippy). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | метушливий (fidgety, fussy, old womanish). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bustling": bustlingly. (additional references) | |
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"Bustling" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bastling, beastling, Bustino, bustline, Guestling. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bustling" (pronounced bu"suling or bu"sling) |
| 6 | -u" s u l i ng | hustling, muscling. |
| 5 | -s u l i ng | bristling, canceling, cancelling, counseling, hassling, jostling, parceling, stenciling. |
| 4 | -u l i ng | ambling, assembling, babbling, backpedaling, baffling, barreling, battling, belittling, bicycling, boggling, bottling, bubbling, bugling, bumbling, bundling, bungling, cackling, channeling, chortling, circling, coddling, commingling, cradling, crippling, crumbling, cycling, dabbling, dangling, dazzling, Dialing, disabling, disgruntling, dismantling, doubling, dribbling, drizzling, dwindling, embezzling, empaneling, enabling, encircling, entitling, equaling, fizzling, fondling, fumbling, funneling, gambling, giggling, gobbling, groveling, grueling, grumbling, gurgling, guzzling, haggling, hobbling, huddling, humbling, hurdling, idling, imperiling, initialing, intermingling, jiggling, juggling, labeling, leveling, mangling, marshaling, meddling, middling, mingling, mislabeling, modeling, mottling, muddling, mumbling, nibbling, paddling, paneling, pedaling, peddling, piddling, pummeling, puzzling, quadrupling, quarreling, quibbling, raveling, recycling, redoubling, refueling, remodeling, resembling, reshuffling, reveling, rippling, rivaling, ruffling, rumbling, saddling, scrambling, scribbling, scuttling, settling, shriveling, shuttling, signaling, signalling, singling, sizzling, spiraling, spiralling, squabbling, stapling, strangling, struggling, stumbling, swiveling, tabling, throttling, tingling, tinkling, toppling, totaling, totalling, toweling, traveling, travelling, trembling, tripling, troubling, tumbling, tunneling, twinkling, unraveling, unsettling, waggling, warbling, wiggling, wobbling, wrangling, wrinkling, yodeling. |
| 3 | -l i ng | annealing, appalling, appealing, ailing, angling, assailing, bailing, baling, balling, bankrolling, beguiling, Belling, billing, blackmailing, boiling, Bolling, bowling, brawling, broiling, buckling, burgling, burling, cajoling, calling, Carling, ceiling, chilling, chronicling, chuckling, compelling, compiling, concealing, consoling, controlling, cooling, corralling, countervailing, coupling, cowling, crackling, crawling, cuddling, culling, curling, curtailing, darling, dawdling, dealing, decoupling, derailing, detailing, dispelling, dissembling, distilling, doling, drilling, drooling, duckling, dueling, dulling, dumpling, dwelling, earthling, emailing, enrolling, entailing, entangling, excelling, expelling, extolling, failing, falling, feeling, felling, fiddling, filing, filling, flailing, fledgling, foaling, foiling, fooling, forestalling, foretelling, fouling, foundling, freewheeling, fueling, fuelling, fulfilling, galling, grappling, Grayling, grilling, groundling, growling, hailing, handling, hauling, healing, heckling, helling, hilling, holing, howling, hurling, hurtling, inhaling, inkling, installing, instilling, jailing, Keeling, killing, kindling, kneeling, lolling, Lulling, mailing, Marling, Melling, milling, mishandling, misspelling, mothballing, mulling, nailing, needling, nestling, nonruling, oiling, outselling, overbilling, overhauling, overkilling, overruling, overselling, panhandling, paralleling, parboiling, paroling, patrolling, pearling, peeling, pickling, piling, Pilling, Pindling, poling, polling, pooling, prevailing, profiling, propelling, prowling, pulling, quelling, quilling, Quisling, railing, rambling, rankling, rappelling, rattling, rebelling, recalling, reconciling, reeling, regaling, rekindling, repealing, repelling, rescheduling, reselling, retailing, retelling, retooling, revealing, ridiculing, Riesling, rifling, rilling, roiling, rolling, rototilling, ruling, rustling, sailing, sampling, Sandling, sapling, scaling, scheduling, Schilling, schooling, scowling, sealing, seedling, Seeling, selling, shelling, shilling, shoveling, shuffling, sibling, skilling, smelling, smiling, smuggling, snarling, Snelling, snowballing, sparkling, Sparling, spelling, spilling, spoiling, sprawling, sprinkling, squealing, stalling, starling, startling, stealing, sterling, stifling, stockpiling, stonewalling, storytelling, straddling, strickling, stripling, strolling, styling, suckling, surveilling, swashbuckling, swelling, swilling, swindling, swirling, tackling, tailing, tangling, telling, thrilling, Tilling, toddling, toggling, toiling, tolling, tooling, trailing, trampling, trickling, trifling, trilling, trolling, twiddling, twirling, unappealing, unavailing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfailing, unfeeling, unfurling, unsmiling, untangling, unveiling, unwilling, veiling, waffling, wailing, walling, weakling, welling, whaling, wheeling, whirling, whistling, whittling, wholesaling, wiling, willing, wrestling, yearling, yelling. |
| 5 | -u" s l i ng | rustling. |
| 4 | -s l i ng | whistling, wrestling. |
| 3 | -l i ng | annealing, appalling, appealing, ailing, ambling, angling, assailing, assembling, babbling, backpedaling, baffling, bailing, baling, balling, bankrolling, barreling, battling, beguiling, belittling, Belling, bicycling, billing, blackmailing, boggling, boiling, Bolling, bottling, bowling, brawling, bristling, broiling, bubbling, buckling, bugling, bumbling, bundling, bungling, burgling, burling, cackling, cajoling, calling, canceling, cancelling, Carling, ceiling, channeling, chilling, chortling, chronicling, chuckling, circling, coddling, commingling, compelling, compiling, concealing, consoling, controlling, cooling, corralling, counseling, countervailing, coupling, cowling, crackling, cradling, crawling, crippling, crumbling, cuddling, culling, curling, curtailing, cycling, dabbling, dangling, darling, dawdling, dazzling, dealing, decoupling, derailing, detailing, Dialing, disabling, disgruntling, dismantling, dispelling, dissembling, distilling, doling, doubling, dribbling, drilling, drizzling, drooling, duckling, dueling, dulling, dumpling, dwelling, dwindling, earthling, emailing, embezzling, empaneling, enabling, encircling, enrolling, entailing, entangling, entitling, equaling, excelling, expelling, extolling, failing, falling, feeling, felling, fiddling, filing, filling, fizzling, flailing, fledgling, foaling, foiling, fondling, fooling, forestalling, foretelling, fouling, foundling, freewheeling, fueling, fuelling, fulfilling, fumbling, funneling, galling, gambling, giggling, gobbling, grappling, Grayling, grilling, groundling, groveling, growling, grueling, grumbling, gurgling, guzzling, haggling, hailing, handling, hassling, hauling, healing, heckling, helling, hilling, hobbling, holing, howling, huddling, humbling, hurdling, hurling, hurtling, hustling, idling, imperiling, inhaling, initialing, inkling, installing, instilling, intermingling, jailing, jiggling, jostling, juggling, Keeling, killing, kindling, kneeling, labeling, leveling, lolling, Lulling, mailing, mangling, Marling, marshaling, meddling, Melling, middling, milling, mingling, mishandling, mislabeling, misspelling, modeling, mothballing, mottling, muddling, mulling, mumbling, muscling, nailing, needling, nestling, nibbling, nonruling, oiling, outselling, overbilling, overhauling, overkilling, overruling, overselling, paddling, paneling, panhandling, paralleling, parboiling, parceling, paroling, patrolling, pearling, pedaling, peddling, peeling, pickling, piddling, piling, Pilling, Pindling, poling, polling, pooling, prevailing, profiling, propelling, prowling, pulling, pummeling, puzzling, quadrupling, quarreling, quelling, quibbling, quilling, Quisling, railing, rambling, rankling, rappelling, rattling, raveling, rebelling, recalling, reconciling, recycling, redoubling, reeling, refueling, regaling, rekindling, remodeling, repealing, repelling, rescheduling, reselling, resembling, reshuffling, retailing, retelling, retooling, revealing, reveling, ridiculing, Riesling, rifling, rilling, rippling, rivaling, roiling, rolling, rototilling, ruffling, ruling, rumbling, saddling, sailing, sampling, Sandling, sapling, scaling, scheduling, Schilling, schooling, scowling, scrambling, scribbling, scuttling, sealing, seedling, Seeling, selling, settling, shelling, shilling, shoveling, shriveling, shuffling, shuttling, sibling, signaling, signalling, singling, sizzling, skilling, smelling, smiling, smuggling, snarling, Snelling, snowballing, sparkling, Sparling, spelling, spilling, spiraling, spiralling, spoiling, sprawling, sprinkling, squabbling, squealing, stalling, stapling, starling, startling, stealing, stenciling, sterling, stifling, stockpiling, stonewalling, storytelling, straddling, strangling, strickling, stripling, strolling, struggling, stumbling, styling, suckling, surveilling, swashbuckling, swelling, swilling, swindling, swirling, swiveling, tabling, tackling, tailing, tangling, telling, thrilling, throttling, Tilling, tingling, tinkling, toddling, toggling, toiling, tolling, tooling, toppling, totaling, totalling, toweling, trailing, trampling, traveling, travelling, trembling, trickling, trifling, trilling, tripling, trolling, troubling, tumbling, tunneling, twiddling, twinkling, twirling, unappealing, unavailing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfailing, unfeeling, unfurling, unraveling, unsettling, unsmiling, untangling, unveiling, unwilling, veiling, waffling, waggling, wailing, walling, warbling, weakling, welling, whaling, wheeling, whirling, whittling, wholesaling, wiggling, wiling, willing, wobbling, wrangling, wrinkling, yearling, yelling, yodeling. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-g-i-l-n-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: bluings, busting, butling, lusting, lutings, tubings. | |
-2 letters: bluing, blunts, busing, glints, guilts, insult, lubing, lungis, luting, sluing, sunlit, tubing. | |
-3 letters: bints, blunt, built, bungs, bunts, gilts, glint, gluts, guilt, iglus, lings, lints, lungi, lungs, lunts, sling, slung, sting, stung, suing, suint, tings, tungs, units, unlit, until, using. | |
-4 letters: bigs, bins, bint, bits, blin, bugs. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-g-i-l-n-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: stumbling, sublating, tumblings. | |
+2 letters: blustering, bustlingly, nightclubs, subletting, subtitling. | |
+3 letters: brutalising, outblessing, outblushing, stumblingly, sublimating, subtilizing, subtotaling. | |
+4 letters: absolutizing, beguilements, blockbusting, bluestocking, blusteringly, bullbaitings, disturbingly, outbuildings, subculturing, subtotalling, undigestible, urbanologist. | |
+5 letters: antiglobulins, blockbustings, bluestockings, boatbuildings, bullfightings, filibustering, fungibilities, nightclubbers, urbanologists. | |
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