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# bustle

«bustle» in Mova's school dictionary: **Busy, noisy activity with lots of people moving about:…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (bustle, uncountable; a bustle, bustles for the dress part); verb (bustle, bustles, bustled, bustling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (noun) Busy, noisy activity with lots of people moving about: the hustle and bustle of the city. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bustle/#m1)

2) (verb) To move around quickly and busily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bustle/#m2)

3) (history) A pad or frame worn under the back of a long skirt in the 1800s to make it puff out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bustle/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories, a busy market or a station is full of bustle; a mum or a cook «bustles about» the kitchen. In history lessons on Victorian clothes, women wore bustles. Phrase: hustle and bustle.

### examples

- I love the hustle and bustle of the market. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bustle/#x1)
- Grandma bustled about the kitchen making tea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bustle/#x2)
- Nurses bustled in and out of the ward. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bustle/#x3)
- Victorian ladies wore bustles under their dresses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bustle/#x4)
- The town was bustling with tourists. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bustle/#x5)
- The station was full of bustle at rush hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bustle/#x6)
- This was long before daybreak; and then they bustled away as quick as lightning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bustle/#x7)

### note

The «t» is silent: BUSS-ul. Adjective: bustling (a bustling town).

### In the corpora

- [Bustle about, old chap!»](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/43-willows-ch5-part3-sardines-and-carol-singers/22/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bustle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bustle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.