Bustlename

• 1

  A surname from German.

bustlenoun/ˈbʌsəl/

• 1

  An excited activity; a stir.

  • the hum and bustle; a din and bustle
  • the whirl and bustle of a large metropolis
• 2

  computingengineeringmathematicsA cover to protect and hide the back panel of a computer or other office machine.

• 3

  historicalA frame worn underneath a woman's skirt, typically only protruding from the rear as opposed to the earlier more circular hoops.

  • A grotesque-looking lady wearing a bustle (Anna mentally undressed the woman, and was appalled at her hideousness), and a little girl laughing affectedly ran down the platform.
  • All the portraits that hang on the walls of the living room are, I realize, of my mother's family: miniatures of her great-aunts in Victorian bustles and elaborate feathered hats; a gilt-framed oil of her great-great-great-uncle as a boy in pastoral England, wearing a gold riding coat over white jodhpurs and sitting astride a white steed, a King Charles spaniel yapping at them from the foreground of the canvas.
• 4

  obsoleteslangMoney; cash.

  • Why the old clerical's turned coper—a new way of raising the wind——letting his friends down easy—gave you a good dinner, I suppose, Sir John, and took this method of drawing the bustle for it: an old trick of the reverend's.

bustleverb/ˈbʌsəl/

• 1

  To move busily and energetically with fussiness (often followed by about).

  • The commuters bustled about inside the train station.
  • I was once so mad to bussell abroad, and seek about for preferment […].
• 2

  To teem or abound (usually followed by with); to exhibit an energetic and active abundance (of a thing).

  • The train station was bustling with commuters.
• 3

  To push around, to importune.

  • Don’t bustle her or fuss or snatch: / A suitor looking at his watch / Is not a posture that persuades / Willing, much less reluctant maids.