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 →

2) (verb) To move around quickly and busily. tree →

3) (history) A pad or frame worn under the back of a long skirt in the 1800s to make it puff out. tree →

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 →
• Grandma bustled about the kitchen making tea. tree →
• Nurses bustled in and out of the ward. tree →
• Victorian ladies wore bustles under their dresses. tree →
• The town was bustling with tourists. tree →
• The station was full of bustle at rush hour. tree →
• This was long before daybreak; and then they bustled away as quick as lightning. tree →

note

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

In the corpora

• Bustle about, old chap!»

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «bustle» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.