Crossword clues for bustling
bustling
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bustle \Bus"tle\ (b[u^]s"s'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bustled (-s'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Bustling (-sl[i^]ng).] [Cf. OE. buskle, perh. fr. AS. bysig busy, bysg-ian to busy + the verbal termination -le; or Icel. bustla to splash, bustle.] To move noisily; to be rudely active; to move in a way to cause agitation or disturbance; as, to bustle through a crowd.
And leave the world for me to bustle in.
--Shak.
Bustling \Bus"tling\ (b[u^]s"sl[i^]ng), a.
Agitated; noisy; tumultuous; characterized by confused
activity; as, a bustling crowd. ``A bustling wharf.''
--Hawthorne.
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
of a place, 1880, present participle adjective from bustle (v.).
Wiktionary
n. A bustle; a busy stir. vb. (present participle of bustle English)
WordNet
adj. full of energetic and noisy activity; "a bustling city"
Usage examples of "bustling".
Miss Level, bustling over with three cups and saucers and the sugar bowl.
And in the garden of every cottage they passed, Tiffany noticed, the beehives were suddenly bustling with activity.
The color and noise and vitality of this huge, bustling metropolis was always fascinating, I thought, watching as impatient drivers bounded down to set the cart back up and separate the fighters.
Covent Garden was bustling with activity, despite the cold, despite the icy wind.
The house was bustling with activity, the silver being polished, the Sevres china being washed, flowers being arranged, dozens of last minute tasks being seen to.
The Market seemed to be bustling, carts full of flowers and vegetables being pushed through the portals, customers coming and going.
Kalliana thought of the bustling trade and how it would be threatened by the interconnecting rail line between Carsus and Bondalar holdings.
He saw the people bustling with a frantic edge to their movements, but he was content.
The preferred gathering place was the large, bustling Josiah Quincy household at the center of town, where a great part of the appeal was the Quincy family.
At the bustling port of Nantes on the lower Loire, they settled into a hotel to wait for passage on the American frigate Alliance.
There was something in his whole appearance that indicated a being of a different order from the bustling race round him.
There was a busy, bustling, disputatious tone about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity.
Even the inhabitants of cities, born and brought up among brick walls and bustling streets, enter with facility into rural habits, and evince a tact for rural occupation.
It is now nearly a century since this trusty drawer of good liquor closed his bustling career and was thus quietly deposited within call of his customers.
Dame Honeyball was a likely, plump, bustling little woman, and no bad substitute for that paragon of hostesses, Dame Quickly.