bustle

Definitions


[ˈbʌsl], (Verb)

Definitions:
- move in an energetic and busy manner
(e.g: people clutching clipboards bustled about)


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Origin:
late Middle English: perhaps a variant of obsolete buskle, frequentative of busk ‘prepare’, from Old Norse


[ˈbʌsl], (Noun)

Definitions:
- excited activity and movement
(e.g: all the noise and the traffic and the bustle)


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Origin:
late Middle English: perhaps a variant of obsolete buskle, frequentative of busk ‘prepare’, from Old Norse


[ˈbʌsl], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a pad or frame worn under a skirt and puffing it out behind


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Origin:
late 18th century: of unknown origin




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