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brustle
English
Etymology
From Middle English brustlien and brastlien, related to German prasseln (“to crackle”). See burst.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b??s?l/
Noun
brustle (plural brustles)
- (obsolete or dialect) A bristle.
Verb
brustle (third-person singular simple present brustles, present participle brustling, simple past and past participle brustled)
- To crackle; to rustle.
- To make a show of fierceness or defiance; to bristle.
- 1684, Thomas Otway, The Atheist: Or, The Second Part of the Soldiers Fortune
- Cour. Oh, an Atheist, Sir; he believes neither God nor the Devil.
Fath. 'Sbud, I'll brustle up to him. Are you an Atheist, Fellow? hoh?
- Cour. Oh, an Atheist, Sir; he believes neither God nor the Devil.
- 1684, Thomas Otway, The Atheist: Or, The Second Part of the Soldiers Fortune
References
brustle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- Butlers, Struble, bluster, bustler, butlers, subtler, turbels
brustle From the web:
bustle
English
Etymology
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”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?s?l/
- Rhymes: -?s?l
Noun
bustle (countable and uncountable, plural bustles)
- (countable, uncountable) An excited activity; a stir.
- 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 34.
- we are, perhaps, all the while flattering our natural indolence, which, hating the bustle of the world, and drudgery of business seeks a pretence of reason to give itself a full and uncontrolled indulgence
- 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 34.
- (computing, countable) A cover to protect and hide the back panel of a computer or other office machine.
- (historical, countable) A frame worn underneath a woman's skirt, typically only protruding from the rear as opposed to the earlier more circular hoops.
Derived terms
- hustle and bustle
Translations
Verb
bustle (third-person singular simple present bustles, present participle bustling, simple past and past participle bustled)
- To move busily and energetically with fussiness (often followed by about).
- The commuters bustled about inside the train station.
- To teem or abound (usually followed by with); to exhibit an energetic and active abundance (of a thing).
- The train station was bustling with commuters.
- (transitive) To push around, to importune.
- 1981, A. D. Hope, "His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell," A Book of Answers:
- Don’t bustle her or fuss or snatch: / A suitor looking at his watch / Is not a posture that persuades / Willing, much less reluctant maids.
- 1981, A. D. Hope, "His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell," A Book of Answers:
Synonyms
- (to move busily): flit, hustle, scamper, scurry
- (to exhibit an energetic abundance): abound, brim, bristle, burst, crawl, swell, teem
Translations
References
Anagrams
- bluest, bluets, butles, sublet, subtle
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