bustle

bustle
    n 1: a rapid active commotion [syn: {bustle}, {hustle},
         {flurry}, {ado}, {fuss}, {stir}]
    2: a framework worn at the back below the waist for giving
       fullness to a woman's skirt
    v 1: move or cause to move energetically or busily; "The
         cheerleaders bustled about excitingly before their
         performance" [syn: {bustle}, {bustle about}, {hustle}]
    

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.
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         And leave the world for me to bustle in. --Shak.
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Bustle \Bus"tle\, n.
   Great stir; agitation; tumult from stirring or excitement.
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         A strange bustle and disturbance in the world. --South.
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Bustle \Bus"tle\, 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}.
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195 Moby Thesaurus words for "bustle":
      accelerate, ado, agitation, bake, beat, bilk, bite, bluff, bluster,
      bluster and bluff, blustering, boastfulness, bobbery, boil,
      boiling, bother, botheration, bravado, brouhaha, bullying, bundle,
      burst, buzz about, chase, cheat, chisel, chouse, churn, clamor,
      commotion, conturbation, cozen, crowd, dash, dash off, dash on,
      discomposure, disorder, dispatch, disquiet, disquietude,
      disturbance, double-time, drive, drive on, dust, ebullience,
      ebullition, eddy, effervescence, embroilment, excitement, expedite,
      fanfaronade, feery-fary, ferment, fermentation, festinate, fever,
      feverishness, fidgetiness, fidgets, fit, flap, flit, flurry,
      fluster, flutter, flutteration, flutteriness, fly, foment, forward,
      fume, furore, fuss, fussiness, get going, get moving, gyp, hassle,
      haste, hasten, hasten on, hectoring, helter-skelter, hie on,
      hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, hurry, hurry about, hurry along,
      hurry on, hurry through, hurry up, hurry-scurry, hustle, hustle up,
      inquietude, intimidation, jitters, jumpiness, kiln, leap,
      lose no time, maelstrom, make a fuss, make haste, malaise, moil,
      move quickly, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, overreach,
      pell-mell, perturbation, plunge, post, pother, precipitate, press,
      press on, push, push on, push through, quicken, race,
      railroad through, rant, ream, restlessness, rodomontade, roil,
      rout, row, ruffle, run, rush, rush about, rush along, rush around,
      rush through, scamper, scramble, scurry, scuttle, seethe, seething,
      side, spasm, speed, speed along, speed up, splutter, spur, spurt,
      sputter, stampede, stew, sting, stir, swagger, swashbucklery,
      sweat, swirl, swirling, take, tear, tear around, to-do,
      trepidation, trepidity, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity,
      turbulence, turmoil, twitter, unease, unquiet, unrest, uproar,
      upset, urge, vortex, whip, whip along, whirl, whirlpool, whirlwind,
      whisk, whiz about, yeastiness