† busklingn.
Obsolete.
Eager activity, bustling; scuffling, agitation. Also: an instance of this.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [noun]
winOE
disturbance1297
perturbingc1395
motiona1398
stirrage1513
turmoil1526
disquietness1535
buskling1546
jumbling1562
agitation1569
working1575
tumult1580
commotion1592
emotion1594
turbulence1598
bransle1603
pother1603
tumultuousnessa1617
unevennessa1637
unquietudea1639
disquietal1642
tumbling1660
disquietude1709
rouse1764
maelstrom1834
peacelessness1852
stir-up1900
the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun] > briskness or activeness > bustle or fuss > bustling or fussing
flustering1422
bustlingc1450
buskling1546
fussation1775
fussing1826
fussification1834
rustling1872
fidget1890
spuffling1893
1546 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 1st Pt. f. 8v Those brockysh boores haue gone frely forewarde without checke tyll now of late dayes, where in God hath geuen vs as more pure syght to beholde their buskelynges.
1548 W. Thomas Ital. Gram. & Dict. Dimenamento, buskelyng or shakyng.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 423/1 The princes seruantes..hearing the buskling, cam wt great hast.
1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (lv. 2) A shufling or buskling suche as is wont to bee in a great preace of people.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. ii. xlix. 78 Suddainly, at the very first buskling [L. primam trepidationem].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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