different between justle vs bustle

English

Etymology

See jostle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??s?l/

Verb

justle (third-person singular simple present justles, present participle justling, simple past and past participle justled)

1. To jostle.
   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Nahum 2:4,^[1]

     The chariots shall rage in the streets; they shall justle one against another in the broad ways […]

   • 1713, Joseph Addison, The Guardian, No. 106, 13 July, 1713, in The Guardian, edited by Alexander Chalmers, London: J. Johnson et al., 1806, Volume 2, p. 134,^[2]

     […] we justled one another out, and disputed the post for a great while.

   • 1776 — Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, page 759

     Where the competition is free, the rivalship of competitors, who are all endeavouring to justle one another out of employment, obliges every man to endeavour to execute his work with a certain degree of exactness.

   • 1939, Alfred Edward Housman, Additional Poems, IX

     When the bells justle in the tower

     The hollow night amid,

     Then on my tongue the taste is sour

     Of all I ever did.

Anagrams

• Sutlej

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