different between bustle vs barge

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)

1. (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

2. (computing, countable) A cover to protect and hide the back panel of a computer or other office machine.
3. (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)

1. To move busily and energetically with fussiness (often followed by about).

   The commuters bustled about inside the train station.
2. 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.

3. (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.

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English barge, borrowed from Old French barge (“boat”), from Late Latin barca, from Latin baris, from Ancient Greek ????? (báris, “Egyptian boat”), from Coptic ????? (baare, “small boat”), from Egyptian b?jr (“transport ship, type of fish”),

Doublet of bark and barque.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b??d?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /b??d?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d?

Noun

barge (plural barges)

1. A large flat-bottomed towed or self-propelled boat used mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods or bulk cargo.
2. A richly decorated ceremonial state vessel propelled by rowers for river processions.
3. A large flat-bottomed coastal trading vessel having a large spritsail and jib-headed topsail, a fore staysail and a very small mizen, and having leeboards instead of a keel.
4. One of the boats of a warship having fourteen oars
5. The wooden disk in which bread or biscuit is placed on a mess table.
6. (US) A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat.
7. (US, dialect, dated) A large omnibus used for excursions.

Synonyms

• lighter

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

barge (third-person singular simple present barges, present participle barging, simple past and past participle barged)

1. To intrude or break through, particularly in an unwelcome or clumsy manner.
2. (transitive) To push someone.

Anagrams

• Aberg, Berga, Gaber, begar, rebag

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba??/

Etymology 1

Variant of barje, Apocopic form of barjot, from jobard.

Adjective

barge (plural barges)

1. (slang, verlan) nuts, bananas (crazy)

Etymology 2

From Old French barge, from Vulgar Latin *barga, variant of Late Latin barca, itself possibly from a form *barica, from Latin baris, from Ancient Greek ????? (báris), itself probably of Egyptian origin. Doublet of barque

Noun

barge f (plural barges)

1. barge (boat)

Etymology 3

Possibly from a Vulgar Latin *bardea, of Gaulish origin.

Noun

barge f (plural barges)

1. godwit

Anagrams

• gerba

Further reading

• “barge” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Alternative forms

• bargge, baarge, berge, barche

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French barge, from Late Latin barca, from Ancient Greek ????? (báris), from Coptic ????? (baare), from Egyptian b?jr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bard?(?)/, /?ba?rd?(?)/

Noun

barge (plural barges)

1. A medium ship or boat, especially one protecting a larger ship.
2. A barge, especially one used for official or ceremonial purposes.

Descendants

• English: barge
• Scots: bairge (possibly)

References

• “b??r?e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-15.

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?par?ke/

Verb

barge

1. inflection of bargat:
   1. first-person dual present indicative
   2. third-person plural past indicative

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *barga, variant of Late Latin barca, itself possibly from a form *barica, from Latin baris, from Ancient Greek ????? (báris), itself probably of Egyptian origin.

Noun

barge f (oblique plural barges, nominative singular barge, nominative plural barges)

1. boat

Descendants

• Middle French: barge
  • French: barge
    • ? Russian: ????? (barža)
• ? Middle English: barge, bargge, baarge, berge, barche
  • English: barge
  • Scots: bairge (possibly)