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Meanings of bustle in English

Portuguese
freneticidade
Catalan
bullit
Spanish
revuelo

A rapid active commotion.

freneticidade

Move or cause to move energetically or busily.

Synonyms
Examples for "bustle about"
Examples for "bustle about"
1
Staff bustle about, setting up training sessions for boxing, table tennis, football.
The Guardian
2
The emigrants run to the top of the twigs, bustle about actively.
The Life of the Spider
3
She would talk and bustle about, fretting, alternately criticizing and mothering him.
Timescape
4
You don't say? The man in blue began to bustle about sympathetically.
Typhoon
5
What a pitiful scoundrel is here to make all this bustle about!
Caleb Williams; Or, Things as They Are
Usage of bustle in English
1
She heard the pleasant bustle below; the light laughter, the cheery calls.
The Shield of Silence
2
There was immediately a great bustle and panic among all the nucleons.
Alice in quantumland: an allegory of quantum physics
3
All through the night there was bustle and commotion in the house.
Mary Barton
4
As we entered the inclosure we found the house in a bustle.
Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family / or, A Residence...
5
Esther and Catherine found relief and amusement in the bustle of preparation.
Esther
6
Sometimes, but not often, the bustle of the press box just stops.
The Guardian
7
Eve had turned her eyes in the direction of crowd and bustle.
Eve's Ransom
8
As for me, I am in the height of bustle and confusion.
Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 2.
9
When I got back to Chieveley all was bustle in the camp.
London to Ladysmith via Pretoria
10
All is bustle and business at home in expectation of his return:
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
11
All this bustle was in the nature of a picnic to them.
Afloat on the Flood
12
As if he hoped the bustle there would supply him with ideas.
Gunman's Reckoning
13
Round about fluttered ribbons and handkerchiefs; round about were noise and bustle.
O. T., A Danish Romance
14
He seemed to regard the bustle and hammering as a personal affront.
Chicken Little Jane
15
But in the midst of all this bustle, Willie moped and pined.
Half a Life-Time Ago
16
Staff bustle about, setting up training sessions for boxing, table tennis, football.
The Guardian
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Translations for bustle
Portuguese
freneticidade
Bustle through the time
Bustle across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Less common