bustle

verb

/ˈbʌsl/

[intransitive, transitive]

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they bustle	/ˈbʌsl/ /ˈbʌsl/
he / she / it bustles	/ˈbʌslz/ /ˈbʌslz/
past simple bustled	/ˈbʌsld/ /ˈbʌsld/
past participle bustled	/ˈbʌsld/ /ˈbʌsld/
-ing form bustling	/ˈbʌslɪŋ/ /ˈbʌslɪŋ/

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to move around in a busy way or to hurry somebody in a particular direction
- + adv./prep. She bustled around in the kitchen.
- bustle somebody + adv./prep. The nurse bustled us out of the room.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
Bustle is used with these nouns as the subject:
servant
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Word Originverb late Middle English: perhaps a variant of obsolete buskle, frequentative of busk ‘prepare’, from Old Norse.

bustle

noun

/ˈbʌsl/

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[uncountable] busy and noisy activity
- the hustle and bustle of city life
- For once the river was quiet, without its usual bustle of barges and river traffic.
[countable] a frame that was worn under a skirt by women in the past in order to hold the skirt out at the back

Word Originnoun sense 1 late Middle English: perhaps a variant of obsolete buskle, frequentative of busk ‘prepare’, from Old Norse. noun sense 2 late 18th cent.: of unknown origin.