bustle

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• /ˈbʌsəl/
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Possibly an Americanized spelling of South German Bastl or a variant of Bussell.

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”). The etymology of noun sense 3 is uncertain, perhaps related to busk (“strip in a corset”) or German Buschel.

62 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: روينة (rwīna) — excited activity
• Armenian: իրարանցում (irarancʻum) — excited activity
• Bulgarian: суетня (suetnja) — excited activity
• Catalan: bullícia — excited activity
• Finnish: vilinä — excited activity
• Finnish: vilske — excited activity
• Finnish: kihinä — excited activity
• Finnish: touhu — excited activity
• Finnish: hyörintä — excited activity
• Finnish: säpinä — excited activity
• French: affairement — excited activity
• French: branlebas — excited activity
• French: remue-ménage — excited activity
• French: agitation — excited activity
• German: Hektik — excited activity
• Italian: viavai — excited activity
• Italian: andirivieni — excited activity
• Latvian: rosme — excited activity
• Latvian: možums — excited activity
• Māori: pōwaiwai — excited activity
• Norman: tinné — excited activity
• Norwegian: travelhet — excited activity
• Polish: bieganina — excited activity
• Portuguese: freneticidade — excited activity
• Romanian: freamăt — excited activity
• Russian: переполо́х (perepolóx) — excited activity
• Russian: суета́ (sujetá) — excited activity
• Russian: сумато́ха (sumatóxa) — excited activity
• Spanish: ajetreo — excited activity
• Ottoman Turkish: قیزغینلق (kızgınlık) — excited activity
• Walloon: rimowe-manaedje — excited activity
• Finnish: taustalevy — cover to protect and hide the back panel of a computer or other office machine
• Bulgarian: турнюр (turnjur) — frame worn underneath a woman's skirt
• Dutch: cul de Paris — frame worn underneath a woman's skirt
• Finnish: turnyyri — frame worn underneath a woman's skirt
• French: tournure — frame worn underneath a woman's skirt
• German: Turnüre — frame worn underneath a woman's skirt
• Italian: sottana — frame worn underneath a woman's skirt
• Japanese: バッスル (bassuru) — frame worn underneath a woman's skirt
• Romanian: turnură — frame worn underneath a woman's skirt
• Spanish: polisón — frame worn underneath a woman's skirt
• Swedish: turnyr — frame worn underneath a woman's skirt
• Bulgarian: суетя се (suetja se) — to move busily and energetically
• Catalan: trafeguejar — to move busily and energetically
• Finnish: kiiruhtaa — to move busily and energetically
• French: s'affairer — to move busily and energetically
• German: hasten — to move busily and energetically
• Italian: affaccendarsi — to move busily and energetically
• Māori: toritori — to move busily and energetically
• Russian: суетиться (sujetitʹsja) — to move busily and energetically
• Spanish: ajetrear — to move busily and energetically
• Spanish: trajinar — to move busily and energetically
• Ukrainian: метуши́тися (metušýtysja) — to move busily and energetically
• Bulgarian: гъмжа (gǎmža) — to teem or abound (with)
• Catalan: bullir — to teem or abound (with)
• Finnish: kihistä — to teem or abound (with)
• Finnish: vilistä — to teem or abound (with)
• French: s'activer — to teem or abound (with)
• Italian: pullulare — to teem or abound (with)
• Russian: кишеть (kišetʹ) — to teem or abound (with)
• Russian: изобиловать (izobilovatʹ) — to teem or abound (with)
• Spanish: abundar — to teem or abound (with)