foostern.
/ˈfuːstə/, /ˈfʊstə/, U.S. /ˈfustər/, /ˈfʊstər/, Irish English /ˈfuːsθər/ Anglo-Irish.
Bustle.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun] > briskness or activeness > bustle or fuss
to-doc1330
adoc1380
great (also much) cry and little woolc1460
feery-fary1535
fray1568
stirc1595
do1598
coil1599
hurl1603
ruffle1609
clutterment1611
buzz1628
bustle1637
paddle1642
racket1644
clutter1652
tracas1656
tracasserie1656
circumference1667
flutter1667
hurly-burly1678
fuss1701
fissle1719
fraise1725
hurry-scurry1753
fix-fax1768
fal-lal1775
widdle1789
touse1792
fuffle1801
going-on1817
hurry and scurry1823
sputter1823
tew1825
Bob's-a-dying1829
fidge1832
tamasha1842
mulling1845
mussing1846
fettling1847
fooster1847
trade1854
scrimmage1855
carry-on1861
fuss-and-feathers1866
on-carry1870
make-a-do1880
miration1883
razzle-dazzle1885
song and dance1885
to get a rustle on1891
tea-party1903
stirabout1905
whoop-de-do1910
chichi1928
production1941
go-go1966
1847 J. S. Le Fanu T. O'Brien 25 Where is it you're going, my colleen Beg, in all this foosther?
1850 Notes & Queries 1st Ser. 2 153 Full of fun and fooster, like Mooney's goose.
Derivatives
ˈfooster v. (intransitive) to bustle off.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away suddenly or hastily
fleec825
runOE
swervea1225
biwevec1275
skip1338
streekc1380
warpa1400
yerna1400
smoltc1400
stepc1460
to flee (one's) touch?1515
skirr1548
rubc1550
to make awaya1566
lope1575
scuddle1577
scoura1592
to take the start1600
to walk off1604
to break awaya1616
to make off1652
to fly off1667
scuttle1681
whew1684
scamper1687
whistle off1689
brush1699
to buy a brush1699
to take (its, etc.) wing1704
decamp1751
to take (a) French leave1751
morris1765
to rush off1794
to hop the twig1797
to run along1803
scoot1805
to take off1815
speela1818
to cut (also make, take) one's lucky1821
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
absquatulize1829
mosey1829
absquatulate1830
put1834
streak1834
vamoose1834
to put out1835
cut1836
stump it1841
scratch1843
scarper1846
to vamoose the ranch1847
hook1851
shoo1851
slide1859
to cut and run1861
get1861
skedaddle1862
bolt1864
cheese it1866
to do a bunkc1870
to wake snakes1872
bunk1877
nit1882
to pull one's freight1884
fooster1892
to get the (also to) hell out (of)1892
smoke1893
mooch1899
to fly the coop1901
skyhoot1901
shemozzle1902
to light a shuck1905
to beat it1906
pooter1907
to take a run-out powder1909
blow1912
to buzz off1914
to hop it1914
skate1915
beetle1919
scram1928
amscray1931
boogie1940
skidoo1949
bug1950
do a flit1952
to do a scarper1958
to hit, split or take the breeze1959
to do a runner1980
to be (also get, go) ghost1986
1892 J. Barlow Irish Idylls III. 56 The hen that had foosthered off with herself down the bog.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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n.1847- to pillar and post
- to pilt forth
- to pilt on
- to pilt out
- to pilt up again
- to pimp off
- to pimp on
- to pin a person's ears back
- to pin one's ears back
- to pin one's etc on a person's sleeve
- to pin one's etc to a person's sleeve
- to pin one's faith on a person's sleeve
- to pin one's faith to a person's sleeve
- to pin one's hope on a person's sleeve
- to pin one's hope to a person's sleeve
- to pin one's sleeve upon
- to pin oneself on a person's sleeve
- to pin oneself to a person's sleeve
- to pin the basket
- to pin the goods on
- to pin the rap on
- to pin the tail on the donkey
- to pinch a penny
- to pinch down
- to pinch in