Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to bustle
Participle: bustled
Gerund: bustling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | bustle |
| you | bustle |
| he;she;it | bustles |
| we | bustle |
| you | bustle |
| they | bustle |
Perfect
| I | have bustled |
| you | have bustled |
| he;she;it | has bustled |
| we | have bustled |
| you | have bustled |
| they | have bustled |
Past
| I | bustled |
| you | bustled |
| he;she;it | bustled |
| we | bustled |
| you | bustled |
| they | bustled |
Pluperfect
| I | had bustled |
| you | had bustled |
| he;she;it | had bustled |
| we | had bustled |
| you | had bustled |
| they | had bustled |
Future
| I | will bustle |
| you | will bustle |
| he;she;it | will bustle |
| we | will bustle |
| you | will bustle |
| they | will bustle |
Future Perfect
| I | will have bustled |
| you | will have bustled |
| he;she;it | will have bustled |
| we | will have bustled |
| you | will have bustled |
| they | will have bustled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | bustle |
| you | bustle |
| he;she;it | bustle |
| we | bustle |
| you | bustle |
| they | bustle |
Perfect
| I | have bustled |
| you | have bustled |
| he;she;it | have bustled |
| we | have bustled |
| you | have bustled |
| they | have bustled |
Imperfect
| I | bustled |
| you | bustled |
| he;she;it | bustled |
| we | bustled |
| you | bustled |
| they | bustled |
Pluperfect
| I | had bustled |
| you | had bustled |
| he;she;it | had bustled |
| we | had bustled |
| you | had bustled |
| they | had bustled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would bustle |
| you | would bustle |
| he;she;it | would bustle |
| we | would bustle |
| you | would bustle |
| they | would bustle |
Perfect
| I | would have bustled |
| you | would have bustled |
| he;she;it | would have bustled |
| we | would have bustled |
| you | would have bustled |
| they | would have bustled |
Imperative
| you | bustle |
| we | Let's bustle |
| you | bustle |
Verbs conjugated like 'bustle'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'bustle'
brustle,
buskle,
butle,
buttle,
hustle,
justle,
nustle,
rustle,
baste,
battle,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. "be active," 1362, frequentative of M.E.
bresten "to rush, break," from O.E.
bersten, infl. by O.N.
buask "to make oneself ready." The noun is first attested 1622.
Bustling, of a place, is first recorded 1880.
2. From Middle English bustlen, bustelen, bostlen, perhaps an alteration of *busklen (> Modern English buskle), a frequentative of Middle English busken (“to prepare; make ready”), from Old Norse búask (“to prepare oneself”); or alternatively from a frequentative form of Middle English busten, bisten (“to buffet; pummel; dash; beat”) + -le. Compare also Icelandic bustla (“to splash; bustle”).
3. The etymology of noun sense 3 is uncertain, perhaps related to busk (“strip in a corset”) or German Buschel. See: English '
buskle', Middle English '
busken', Icelandic '
bustla'.
Sample Sentences
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[...] and disclosed to view a neatly-baked pound-cake, of which no city confectioner need to have been ashamed. This being evidently the central point of the entertainment, Aunt Chloe began now to bustle about earnestly in the supper department.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ Now, ” said Aunt Chloe, bustling about after breakfast, “ I must put up yer clothes. Jest like as not, he'll take ’ em all away. I know thar ways—mean as dirt, they is ! Wal, now, yer flannels for rhumatis is in this corner; so be [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] ostentation, to change all the furniture and appurtenances of the room to one at some considerable distance. The under-servants, who were called on to effect this movement, were running and bustling about with great zeal and confusion, when Legree returned from a ride.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)