verb, noun
verb [+adv./prep.] to move around in a busy way or to hurry sb in a particular direction:
[V] She bustled around in the kitchen. * [VN] The nurse bustled us out of the room.
Part of speech: noun
1 [U] busy and noisy activity:
the hustle and bustle of city life
2 [C] a frame that was worn under a skirt by women in the past in order to hold the skirt out at the back
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for bustle is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is bustle a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, bustle is tagged as noun.
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