bustlen.1
/ˈbʌsl/, U.S. /ˈbəs(ə)l/ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [noun] > a fight
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fightc1300
tirpeilc1330
ragea1393
stradec1400
intermell1489
cockfighta1513
skirm1534
bustle1579
pell-mellc1586
brabble1587
jostle1607
scufflea1616
counterbuff1632
mêléea1648
roil1690
tussle1749
scrimmage1780
turn-up1810
scrape1812
pounding match1815
mellay1819
struggle1840
mix-up1841
scrap1846
rough-up1891
turn-to1893
push and shove1895
bagarre1897
stoush1908
dogfight1910
bundle1936
sort-out1937
yike1940
bassa-bassa1956
punch-up1958
thump-up1967
1579 W. Allen Let. 12 May in C. Dodd Church Hist. Eng. (1739) II. iv. iii. ii. 237/1 (modernized text) I shall be weary of my life: which already, by these unhappy bustles of our country, is more tedious to me, than ever before.
1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania iv. 508 A foule bustle he kept, and shrewdly threatned me behind my back.
1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. iii. 215 Caligula..Ingag'd his Legions in fierce bustles, With Perywinkles, Prawns, and Muscles.
1693 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) III. 51 Divers were killed in the bustle.
1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 304 We had a small Bustle with some of the..Troops of Horse.
1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xxx. 3 His escape..he attempts..a bustle ensues.
1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake II. xxii. 379 There was a bustle, a heavy fall.
1898 G. Stables Off to Klondyke xv. 152 In the bustle of battle we have quite forgotten the inmates of the house.
2. † b. Brewing. Movement produced in the process of fermentation. Also figurative. Obsolete.
a. gen. Noisy activity and movement; excitement, noise, fuss, commotion. Sometimes in collocation with hustle (see hustle n. 2). Now the usual sense.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun] > briskness or activeness > bustle or fuss
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adoc1380
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fuss-and-feathers1866
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song and dance1885
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tea-party1903
stirabout1905
whoop-de-do1910
chichi1928
production1941
go-go1966
1637 J. Milton Comus 14 Feathers..That in the various bustle of resort Were all to ruffl'd.
1692 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. (1880) §167. 143 All his Bustle and Pother will be to little or no purpose.
1734 H. Fielding Intrig. Chambermaid i. x. 19 What was the Occasion of this Bustle?
1758 S. Johnson Idler 19 Aug. 153 Many..pass their lives..in bustle without business.
1822 London Mag. May 404 Mortal crowds... Dear what a hustle And bustle!
1875 W. S. Jevons Money (1878) 266 The bustle and turmoil..grow to a climax at four o'clock.
1903 H. Keller Story of my Life i. xi. 43 When the bustle and excitement of preparation was at its height, the hunting party made its appearance.
1971 N. Brown Antarctic Housewife ii. 5 The hustle and bustle of Ostend;..gesticulating Belgian officials,..travel agents frantically seeking their charges.
2000 Heritage Feb. 5/2 This picture-postcard town on the banks of the Severn..seems an age away from the bustle of today's cities.
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the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > [noun] > fermentation
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spurgingc1440
working1548
bustle1674
zymurgy1868
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 128 Fermentation or bustle of the working or leavening particles.
a1737 J. Hutchinson Glory or Gravity: 2nd Pt. (1738) 99 The Division made in this Fluid by the Bustle in Fermentation.
1742 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer (ed. 4) iv. x. 331 Now the greater the Vessel is, the more Parts may arise, and the more sink down; and..the more must be the Bustle.
1836 Brit. Critic 20 129 The tendency..of popular divinity..is to become a..froth without substance; a bustle and ferment of superstitious enthusiasm.
3. slang.† a. cant. Money. Obsolete.
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society > trade and finance > money > [noun]
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California1851
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Oscar Asche1905
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potatos1931
bread1935
moolah1936
acker1939
moo1941
lolly1943
loot1943
poppy1943
mazoola1944
dosh1953
bickies1966
lovely jubbly1990
scrilla1994
1763 Proc. Old Bailey 4 May 32/1 He had got the bustle (meaning the cash) in his pocket.
1829 Session Cases Old Bailey (5th Session) 604/1 It will be my ingenuity that will..put the bustle in our clyes [sc. pockets].
1830 E. Bulwer-Lytton Paul Clifford I. vi. 102 Once, in censuring a popular writer for..growing rich,..[he said] ‘He who surreptitiously accumulates bustle is, in fact nothing better than a buzz-cloak [sc. pickpocket].’
1848 Flash Dict. in Sinks of London laid Open 101/1 Bustle, ready money.
b. A pretence of haste intended to confuse the victim when borrowing or begging for money (see quot. 1819). on the bustle: by means of this or a similar fraud. Cf. hustle n. 4. Now rare.
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1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 161 To give it to a man upon the bustle is to obtain any point, as borrowing money, &c. by..affecting great haste so that he is taken by surprise and becomes duped before he has time to consider of the matter.
1864 G. A. Sala My Diary in Amer. (1865) II. 231 Your diamonds must be obtained ‘on the bustle’ from Tiffany's.
1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. 140 On the bustle,..thieves' and push slang for cadging or obtaining petty objects by cheek or cleverness.
Compounds
bustle pipe n. Metallurgy an annular pipe surrounding the base of a blast furnace, which supplies hot air to the tuyères.
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1877 U.S. Patent 192,634 1/1 Better means for heating the air, before injection into the firing-places, by the interior circular bustle-pipe, having few or many radial branchings, terminating in blowing-nozzles.
1926 Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. 114 557 A bustle pipe surrounding the cupola, which supplies a row of pendant tuyeres in the usual manner.
1989 C. Caborn & J. Cave Design & Technol. (rev. ed.) xxii. 328 Heated air is blasted into the bottom of the furnace from the blast or bustle pipe, through the tuyères, to make the coke burn fiercely.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
bustlen.2
/ˈbʌsl/, U.S. /ˈbəs(ə)l/ Now chiefly historical.
A stuffed pad or wire frame worn below the waist under a woman's skirt to distend it, esp. at the back; the part of the skirt projected or distended by this. Cf. dress improver n. at dress n. Compounds 1c.The bustle was worn at different periods in the 18th and 19th centuries, esp. c1870–89 when it often consisted of fabric elaborately looped and bunched over a frame, puffing the skirt out substantially behind. It has since been revived from time to time, in modified form, as a fashion item.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > underwear > [noun] > contrivance for expanding skirts > bustle, pads, or cushion
bum roll1602
roll1602
Scotch bum1607
Scotch fall1607
rump roll1707
rump1710
bustle1786
bustler1787
cushion1806
dress improver1842
improver1844
bishopa1860
tournure1872
1786 A. Adams Let. 18 July in Adams Family Corr. (2005) VII. 258 Pray, does the fashion of Merry thoughts, Bustles and protuberances prevail with you.
1787 L. L. Orr Jrnl. 12 Nov. in Jrnl. Young Lady Virginia (1976) 57 Flora..is very genteal, and wears monstrous Bustles.
1838 New Monthly Mag. 54 207 It caught the bustle—the projecting mass of muslin, silk, or cotton, as might be.
1865 Daily Tel. 12 Apr. 7 Originally the ‘bustle’ was merely a species of pillow, which was tied round the waist.
1880 in Amer. Mail Order Fashions (1961) 14 The wires can be taken out..so that the entire bustle can be laundried with the greatest care.
1923 R. U. Johnson Remembered Yesterdays i. 35 Crinoline, bustles and chignons, and other eccentricities of a tyrannical fashion.
1939 Life 14 Aug. 36/2 The..fashion pages..are still screaming the now stale news that the bustle..is in fashion.
1985 J. Burchill Chic in Sex & Sensibility (1992) 100 Consigned to the dirty old dressing-up box of history—until Vivienne Westwood revives it, like the bustle.
2001 J. Wosk Women & Machine (2003) ii. 64 By 1890..the fashion of wearing bustles was largely over.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
bustlev.1
/ˈbʌsl/, U.S. /ˈbəs(ə)l/ 1. intransitive. To move or work vigorously but aimlessly; = bluster v. 1. Obsolete.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [verb (intransitive)] > with no fixed aim or wander > blindly or stupidly
bustlec1350
bluster1377
c1350 in London Mediaeval Stud. (1951) 2 53 A boy on a belrop he bostles and berus; as al þe toun were a fuyr, foule fares he.
c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. vi. l. 4 (MED) Þer were fewe men so wys þat couþe þe wei þider, Bote bustelyng [c1400 Laud B. v. l. 521 blustreden; c1400 Huntington HM 137 C. viii. l. 159 blostrede] forþ as bestes ouer valeyes and hulles.
II. In modern use.† 5. intransitive. To struggle, scuffle; to contend (with, for). to bustle it out: to fight it out. Obsolete.Common in the 17th and early 18th centuries; now merged with sense 2a.
2. † b. intransitive. To come down with a commotion. Obsolete.
a. intransitive. To be fussily or noisily active; to move about in an energetic and busy manner; to make a show of activity. Often with about, along, up and down, etc.Cf. earlier bustling n., and buskle v. 1.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > act or do vigorously [verb (intransitive)] > be brisk or active > bustle
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bustle1548
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1548 R. Crowley Confut. Mishapen Aunswer sig. f.iiiv Then a while ye bustle blindly about this kingdome & priesthod so long til you falle into your olde flesh againe.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 154 Some..for feare to be taken tardy dyd bustle vp at this sodaine noyse.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. i. 152 God..leaue the world for me to bussell in. View more context for this quotation
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. iii. vi. 420 I was once..mad to bussell abroad.
1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer ii. 1759 How they trudg'd, and busled up and downe.
1632 R. Sanderson 12 Serm. 312 Many servants..will..bustle at it..so long as their masters eye is upon them.
1672 Duke of Buckingham Rehearsal v. 44 Busie, busie, busie, busie, we bustle along.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 6. ⁋6 The good Man bustled through the Crowd.
1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 223 We bustle up with unsuccessful speed.
1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I clix. 82 Antonia bustled round the ransack'd room.
1844 C. Kingsley Let. May (1878) I. 122 We bustle and God works.
1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 160 Let the great world bustle on.
1905 Baroness Orczy Scarlet Pimpernel ii. 11 The two little kitchen-maids bustled around..giggling over some private jokes of their own.
1995 B. Bryson Notes from Small Island (1996) v. 84 She bustled off to the kitchen.
2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 7 Dec. v. 19/1 They bustled about, dimming the overheads, lighting candles.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > fall [verb (intransitive)] > with commotion
bustle?1611
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xiii. 369 Down he bustled like an oak..Hewn down for shipwood.
c. intransitive. Of a time or place: to be full of bustle; to be alive with action, people, etc. Cf. bristle v.1 4.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > act or do vigorously [verb (intransitive)] > be brisk or active > be full of brisk activity
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hum1889
jumpc1938
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. xiii. 137 Every place, every season, every hour of the day and night, is bustling with life.
1854 Southern Literary Messenger Jan. 39/1 The streets and squares..now bustled with all the signs of activity.
1880 All Year Round 9 Oct. 514 Transports..bustling with sailors.
1905 F. Treves Other Side of Lantern x. 85 Those who walk along its empty terraces..see it as it was when it bustled with men and women three centuries ago.
1956 Life 2 Apr. 38/2 This year it [sc. Antarctica] will bustle with unaccustomed life and color.
2004 Adventure Trav. July 80/1 Bethlehem's Nativity Church..had been bustling with pilgrims in 2000 but was empty on our arrival four years later.
3.
a. transitive. Frequently with up. To bestir, stir, rouse (a person or thing). Also reflexive: to stir oneself (sometimes as a command: cf. 3b). Now rare.
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin or enter upon (an action) [verb (transitive)] > stir up or rouse up
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to shake up1850
to galvanize to or into life1853
to make things (or something specified) hum1884
to jack up1914
rev1945
the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin an action [verb (reflexive)] > bestir oneself
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a1555 J. Bradford in M. Coverdale Certain Lett. Martyrs (1564) 261 Good Mother awake, awake, repente, repent, bustell thy self and make haste to turne to the Lord.
1584 J. Lyly Alexander, Campaspe, & Diogenes iv. i. sig. D4 My maister bustels himself to flye.
1610 Histrio-mastix vi. 251 Bustle up Your drouping spirits.
a1666 R. Fanshawe tr. A. Hurtado de Mendoza Querer por solo Querer (1670) ii. 82 Sas! Coward, bustle up thy self.
1751 F. Coventry Hist. Pompey the Little ii. iv. 162 Our aged Gallant, putting on an unusual Air of Gaiety, and bustling himself up,..approached the two Ladies.
1815 T. D. Cowdell Poet. Acct. Amer. Campaigns 75 Boreas bustled up a little storm.
1880 Daily Tel. 12 Oct. We spend a couple of hours in bustling up the denizens of the big wood.
1906 G. Maxwell Miracle Worker ix. 141 Ludwig, bustle yourself and call the man; tell him to hurry.
2010 R. Pevear & L. Volokhonsky tr. B. Pasternak Dr. Zhivago v. 139 Suddenly the end of the rag moved and a flop-eared hound bustled herself up.
b. intransitive. In imperative: ‘stir yourself!’; ‘hurry up!’ Now rare.
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1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III v. vi. 19 Come, bustle, bustle, caparison my horse. View more context for this quotation
1780 J. O'Keeffe Tony Lumpkin in Town ii. 29 But quick, quick, bustle; you must have 'em done before cousin comes back.
1822 Ld. Byron Werner i. i. 258 What, ho, there! bustle!
1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) v. 50 ‘Bustle,’ said the old gentleman.
1868 Ld. Lytton Orval in New Poems II. 210 Run to the Apothecary! Bustle, wench!
1912 Baroness Orczy Meadowsweet xviii. 181 ‘Come, Susan, bustle up, then, bustle up!’ said Aunt Caroline fussily.
1945 R. S. Close Love me Sailor 90 ‘Come on! Bustle along there...’ There was a swift counting of heads.
4.
a. transitive (reflexive). To move oneself hurriedly, busily, or officiously, esp. to or into a specified place, condition, or state.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > engage vigorously [verb (reflexive)] > bustle or fuss
bustle?1567
cluck1890
?1567 Merie Tales Master Skelton sig. A.iiv Euery man bustled hym selfe vpward.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 2275/2 The Byshop..bustleth him self with all speede possible to the Church.
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 73 In the morning they be all very silent, till one of them awaken all the rest with his thrise humming noyse, euery one bustling himselfe about his owne proper office and charge.
1751 S. Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) VIII. Concl. 258 She would bustle herself into a place, and make room for her more bashful companions.
1833 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 33 281 A man who bustled himself into importance with the mob.
1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! I. ii. 33 The churchwardens and sidesmen..have bustled themselves hot, and red.
1905 M. H. Austin Isidro xv. 198 The alcalde bustled himself into the house.
2006 K. Larson Hattie Big Sky (2008) xviii. 221 I bustled myself inside, and soon there were four chokecherry pies cooling on the kitchen table.
b. transitive. To cause (a person) to move hurriedly, esp. in a particular direction; to hurry in a fussy or bossy manner; to hustle into, out of, etc.In quot. 1575: to jostle, contend with (cf. sense 5).
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > carry on vigorously [verb (transitive)] > make brisk or active > bring into a specific condition by bustling
bustle1575
the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > do, deal with, acquire, etc., quickly [verb (transitive)] > cause to be done rapidly > hasten or hurry > a person
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1575 R. B. Apius & Virginia sig. C.iijv What if case that cruelty, should bussell me, and iussell mee.
1785 Pennsylvania Gaz. 5 Jan. If their two-fifths were added to the republican party..we ourselves might be bustled out of the state.
1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! v. 92 The jolly old man bustled them out of the house.
1883 Standard 8 Sept. If a stroke oar spurted at every two hundred yards, and then eased when he was striking fast, he would ‘bustle’ his men into utter confusion.
1966 Listener 24 Feb. 271/1 I bustled him away because the Scotsman started returning to find out whether this wasn't some inexperienced German spy who didn't know the rules.
2001 Daily Tel. 20 Jan. (Suppl.: Travel) 40/2 She bustles us to our room.
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society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > contend [verb (intransitive)]
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to have, hold, make, take strifec1374
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to go (also shake, try, wrestle) a fall1597
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to run (or ride) a-tilt1608
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1585 J. Sharrock tr. C. Ocland Valiant Actes & Victorious Battailes Eng. Nation ii. sig. I3 The enemie armies bustled ferce, With dreadfull ratling noice.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 261 Edward the Third..and Philip Valois bustled for the very Kingdome of France.
a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander (1647) v. ii. 321 'Tis in vaine..to bustle with my resolution [Fr. choquer mes resolutions].
1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon 336 They were content to let him bustle it out alone.
a1690 J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 463 One of them..began to bussle and said he would cut the Throat of those Round-headed Dogs.
1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses v. 20 Peg's Servants..had more than their Share of the Christmas-box:..Peg's Lads bustl'd pretty hard for that.
1763 C. Smart Poems 6 [That vast bulwark] Whose strong foundation Ocean..bustles with officious waves.
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bustlev.2
/ˈbʌsl/, U.S. /ˈbəs(ə)l/ transitive (usually in passive). To give a bustle (bustle n.2) or bustle-like projection to. Also intransitive: to project like, or as though supported by, a bustle. Frequently with out.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [verb (intransitive)] > hang or sit in specific way
poughc1325
frouncec1400
poke?a1425
to hang by geometry1584
sag1592
bag1824
bustle1824
cascade1861
flare1899
pouch1901
1824 Atheneum: Spirit of Eng. Mags. 1 July 251/2 The Exquisite is so..contracted above the hip, and so bustled out below it, that [he]..looks not unlike a twin radish.
1853 C. Dickens Let. 4 Nov. (1993) VII. 185 A clinging flowered black silk dress which wouldn't drape, or bustle, or fall.
1880 L. B. Walford Troublesome Daughters vii. xxvi. 286 Bustling out her little petticoats and puffing up her little frills.
1951 J. O'Connor Hostage to Fortune 274 Her skirt bustled out over hidden petticoats and hung in dead folds.
2004 Cincinnati Wedding Summer 55 A magnificent skirt bustled in back with organza roses.
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