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発音

• IPA: /ˈbʌsəl/
• 韻: -ʌsəl

名詞

bustle (countable and uncountable, plural bustles)

1. (countable, uncountable) An excited activity; a stir. [from early 17th c.]

   Synonyms: ado, hustle

   the hum and bustle; a din and bustle

   the whirl and bustle of a large metropolis

   • 1748, [David Hume], “Essay V. Sceptical Solution of These Doubts.”, in Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, part I, page 70:

     […] we are, perhaps, all the while flattering our natural Indolence, which, hating the Buſtle of the World and Drudgery of Buſineſs, ſeeks a Pretext of Reaſon, to give itſelf a full and uncontroul'd Indulgence.

   • 1755, Adam Fitz-Adam, The World, number CXXI, London, page 789:

     In the midſt of all this buſtle, I was ſtruck with the appearance of a large bevy of beauties and women of the firſt fashion, who with all the perfect confidence of good breeding, inſhrined themſelves in the ſeveral temples dedicated to the Cyprian Venus[.]

   • 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:

     My father was in the meantime overjoyed and in the bustle of preparation only recognized in the melancholy of his niece the diffidence of a bride.

   • 1832, [Washington Irving], The Alhambra: A Series of Tales and Sketches of the Moors and Spaniards. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Philadelphia, Pa.: [Henry Charles] Carey & [Isaac] Lea, →OCLC:

     As the sun ascends to his meridian, the hum and bustle gradually decline; at the height of noon there is a pause.

   • 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Three. The Second of the Three Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. […], London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 92:

     Such a bustle ensued that you might have thought a goose the rarest of all birds; a feathered phenomenon, to which a black swan was a matter of course — and in truth it was something very like it in that house.

   • 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “(please specify the page)”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC:

     The house has been in great bustle all the morning with people coming and going.

   • 2020 June 26, Heather Stewart, “Boris Johnson hopes bullish approach can bring back the 'bustle'”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     As the self-confessed scourge of “doomsters and gloomsters”, the prime minister visibly loathed having to tell the nation in March their local would be shut down by the government – and enjoyed telling them “bustle” can now return to the high street.

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. [from late 18th c.]

   Synonym: tournure

   • 1901 [1878], chapter 31, in Constance Garnett, transl., Anna Karenina‎, translation of Анна Каренина (Anna Karenina) by Leo Tolstoy, part 7:

     A grotesque-looking lady wearing a bustle (Anna mentally undressed the woman, and was appalled at her hideousness), and a little girl laughing affectedly ran down the platform.

   • 2006, Peter Godwin, When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa:

     All the portraits that hang on the walls of the living room are, I realize, of my mother's family: miniatures of her great-aunts in Victorian bustles and elaborate feathered hats; a gilt-framed oil of her great-great-great-uncle as a boy in pastoral England, wearing a gold riding coat over white jodhpurs and sitting astride a white steed, a King Charles spaniel yapping at them from the foreground of the canvas.

4. (UK, slang, obsolete, uncountable) Money; cash.
   • 1825, Charles Molloy Westmacott, The English Spy, page 236:

     Why the old clerical's turned coper—a new way of raising the wind——letting his friends down easy—gave you a good dinner, I suppose, Sir John, and took this method of drawing the bustle for it: an old trick of the reverend's.

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動詞

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).

   Synonyms: flit, hustle, scamper, scurry

   The commuters bustled about inside the train station.

   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 6:

     I was once so mad to bussell abroad, and seek about for preferment […].

2. To teem or abound (usually followed by with); to exhibit an energetic and active abundance (of a thing).

   Synonyms: abound, brim, bristle, burst, crawl, swell, teem

   The train station was bustling with commuters.

3. (transitive) To push around, to importune.
   • 1981, A. D. Hope, “His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell”, in 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.

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参照

• (money): John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary‎

アナグラム

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