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Definition of bustle :
1. A kind of pad or cushion worn on the back below the waist, by women, to give fullness to the skirts; - called also bishop, and tournure.
2. Great stir; agitation; tumult from stirring or excitement.
3. To move noisily; to be rudely active; to move in a way to cause agitation or disturbance; as, to bustle through a crowd.
Synonyms:
pluck, turmoil, disturbance, row, hoo-ha, corset, bucket, shindy, roll, sting, clatter, bobby socks, ruction, sail, stir, moil, toss off, run, hubbub, hoopla, zoo, hotfoot, do, alarums and excursions, furor, whisk, doublet, commotion, ruckus, fly, blather, trot, disorder, hullabaloo, williwaw, zoom, move, tumult, bicker, dart, zip, splash, turbulence, mess around, tizzy, pelt, bloomers, hurly-burly, flit, fun, bunco, flimflam, hasten to do something, bunco game, gyp, spat, bustle about, crinoline, con, hassle, whirlpool, whiz, bunko, clutter, confidence trick, whiz through, kerfuffle, festinate, codpiece, armor, storm, flap, bolt, gallop through, furore, bother, confidence game, barrel, fuss, splore, hurry-scurry, coil, scoot, whirl, scour, zip through, uproar, dither, dash, nip, highball, squabble, bunko game, sail through, tiff, ado, hurricane, chain mail, to-do, bickering, rumpus, hurly, shoot, welter, rip, pandemonium, stew, tear, race, sprint, not hang around, hurry up, pettifoggery, flash, calm, action, bluster, force through, putter, bobbery, armour, fleet, corroboree, con game, bedlam, foofaraw, helter-skelter, trouble, snow flurry, ballyhoo, pother, squall, rocket, wing, hubble-bubble
haste (part of speech: noun)
impatience, quickness, abruptness, fastness, haste, briskness, hurriedness, flurry, feverishness, speediness, fleetness, swiftness, urgency, rapidity
hasten (part of speech: verb)
hurry, expedite, spur, push, speed, quicken, hasten, rush, hustle, accelerate, urge
Usage examples:
- At last he heard a bustle within the house. - "The Wrong Twin", Harry Leon Wilson.
- But 'tis no part of our bargain that we should bustle anybody but Simon the steward." - "A Set of Rogues", Frank Barrett.
- All was now bustle aboard the brig. - "The Ruined Cities of Zululand", Hugh Mulleneux Walmsley.