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单词 hustling
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hustlingn.1

/ˈhʌslɪŋ/
Etymology: < hustle v. + -ing suffix1.
a. The action of hustle v. in various senses.
ΚΠ
1760 J. Adams Diary 2 June (1961) I. 131 I had no..Companions for Pleasure either in Walking, riding, drinking, husling, or any thing else.
1797 Sporting Mag. 10 198 Amusing himself with pricking in the belt, hustling in the hat, &c.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 154 It [a horse] took a little hustling to prevent his being distanced.
1897 Daily News 30 July 7/1 The first woman to cross over the divide..She did much ‘hustling’ in the winter, and she showed a noble pair of moose antlers as a trophy of her skill with the rifle.
b. Robbery, esp. with violence.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > [noun]
reiflockOE
reiflOE
robberya1200
rapea1325
reaveryc1325
robbing1340
ravinc1384
stouthreif1493
ravenya1500
bribery1523
reft1552
pillardise1598
involationa1680
mail robbery1797
hustling1823
push1874
blag1885
rolling1895
strong-arming1948
1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang 102 Hustling, forcible robbery, by two or more thieves seizing their victim round the body, or at the collar.
1826 New Newgate Cal. V. 337 Transported for hustling.
1972 Observer 20 Aug. 7/4Hustling’ has been growing steadily for years... By 1968,.. of 150 cases of bag-snatching, 87 were alleged to have been committed by black youths.
c. Prostitution, soliciting as a prostitute.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun]
bordelc1300
prostitution1553
trugging1591
trade1592
putanism1672
street1750
Magdalenism1840
the life1858
profession1888
social evil1901
hustling1924
game1926
sex trade1931
1924 G. C. Henderson Keys to Crookdom 408 Hustling, streetwalking.
1938 ‘M. Benney’ Scapegoat Dances vi. 77 Bond Street might be better. There's good 'ustling there.
1959 Streetwalker iv. 85 I had to use the flat for hustling.
1969 Jeremy 1 iii. 22/2 Hustling, working as a male prostitute.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

hustlingn.2

Etymology: ? Echoic: compare rustle.
Obsolete. rare.
Clashing, hurtling; ? rustling.
ΚΠ
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xii. xii. 7 The husling in [1553 hussilling of] his armour dyd rebund And kest a terribill or a feirfull sound [Virgil, horrendumque intonat armis].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

hustlingadj.

/ˈhʌslɪŋ/
Etymology: < hustle v. + -ing suffix2.
That hustles, pushing.
ΚΠ
1871 F. T. Palgrave Lyrical Poems 11 The low bee-hive bench, the trough Of hustling swine.
1896 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 4 Jan. 10/5 It..is more like the hustling United States dailies than the other Mexican dailies.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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