Bustle

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To move or cause to move energetically and busily.
  • n. Excited and often noisy activity; a stir.
  • n. A frame or pad to support and expand the fullness of the back of a woman's skirt.
  • n. A bow, peplum, or gathering of material at the back of a woman's skirt below the waist.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An excited activity; a stir.
  • n. A cover to protect and hide the back panel of a computer or other office machine.
  • n. A frame worn underneath a woman's skirt.
  • v. To move busily and energetically with fussiness (often followed by about).
  • v. To teem or abound (usually followed by with); to exhibit an energetic and active abundance (of a thing). See also bustle with.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb-intransitive. To move noisily; to be rudely active; to move in a way to cause agitation or disturbance.
  • n. Great stir; agitation; tumult from stirring or excitement.
  • n. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To display activity with a certain amount of noise or agitation; be active and stirring; move quickly and energetically: sometimes used, reflexively.
  • n. Activity with noise and agitation; stir; hurry-scurry.
  • n. A pad, cushion, curved frame-work of wire, or the like, worn by women on the back part of the body below the waist for the purpose of improving the figure, causing the folds of the skirt to hang gracefully, and preventing the skirt from interfering with the feet in walking.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. move or cause to move energetically or busily
  • n. a rapid active commotion
  • n. a framework worn at the back below the waist for giving fullness to a woman's skirt
  • Antonym
    leisure    deliberation    idleness   
    Verb Form
    bustled    bustles    bustling   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    move    din    ruckus    rumpus    commotion    tumult    ruction    framework   
    Cross Reference
    rustle   
    Variant
    bishop    tournure   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    agitation    action    fluster    flurry    flutter    stir    to-do    commotion    fuss    tumult   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Russel    Russell    bussell    hustle    muscle    mussel    rustle    tussle   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    tumult    stir    commotion    excitement    hurry    confusion    din    clatter    chatter    clamour