bustleverb [ I + adv/prep ]
uk/ˈbʌs.əl/us/ˈbʌs.əl/to do things in a hurried and busy way:
Thora bustled around the house, getting everything ready.
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Hurrying and doing things quickly
- accelerate
- acceleration
- against the clock idiom
- against time/the clock idiom
- alacrity
- dose
- haste
- hasten
- hasty
- hit/press/push the panic button idiom
- hurried
- patch
- rush
- rush into sth
- rush job
- rushed
- scrabble
- sharpish
- snap
- throw
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bustlenoun
uk/ˈbʌs.əl/us/ˈbʌs.əl/bustle noun (ACTIVITY)
[ U ] busy activity:
I sat in a café, watching the (hustle and) bustle of the street outside.
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Busy and active
- a hive of activity/industry idiom
- arena
- be (as) busy as a bee idiom
- be all go idiom
- be at work idiom
- be back in harness idiom
- buzz
- foot
- hard-working
- harness
- have (got) sth on
- have sth on your plate idiom
- have your hands full idiom
- hurly-burly
- knee-deep
- mad
- spread
- stimulating
- tie sb up
- well away idiom
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bustle noun (DRESS)
[ C ] a frame worn under a dress or skirt by women in the late 19th century to make the skirt stick out
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Renaissance: 1501 to 1899
- ancien régime
- buccaneer
- cavalier
- conquistador
- Elizabethan
- enlightenment
- Marian
- masque
- Pre-Raphaelite
- regency
- renaissance
- the First Fleet
- the Industrial Revolution
- the Pilgrims
- the Reformation
- the Spanish Inquisition
- Victorian
- Victoriana
- Whig
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