bustle
verb
[ ˈbʌs(ə)l ]
• move in an energetic and busy manner.
• "people clutching clipboards bustled about"
Similar:
rush,
dash,
scurry,
scuttle,
scamper,
scramble,
flutter,
fuss,
hurry,
hasten,
make haste,
race,
run,
sprint,
tear,
shoot,
charge,
chase,
career,
scutter,
scoot,
beetle,
whizz,
buzz,
hare,
zoom,
zip,
bustle
noun
• excited activity and movement.
• "all the noise and the traffic and the bustle"
Similar:
activity,
hustle and bustle,
animation,
commotion,
flurry,
tumult,
hubbub,
busyness,
action,
liveliness,
movement,
life,
stir,
excitement,
agitation,
fuss,
whirl,
toing and froing,
comings and goings,
to-do,
hurry-scurry,
pother,
Origin:
late Middle English: perhaps a variant of obsolete buskle, frequentative of busk ‘prepare’, from Old Norse.
bustle
noun
• a pad or frame worn under a skirt and puffing it out behind.
Origin:
late 18th century: of unknown origin.
