• IPA: /ˈbʌsəl/

bustle (plural bustles)

1. 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) A cover to protect and hide the back panel of a computer or other office machine.
3. (historical) A frame worn underneath a woman's skirt, typically only protruding from the rear as opposed to the earlier more circular hoops.

• French: affairement, branlebas, remue-ménage
• German: Hektik
• Italian: viavai, andirivieni
• Portuguese: freneticidade
• Russian: переполо́х

• French: tournure
• Spanish: polisón

bustle (bustles, present participle bustling; 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.

   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗, 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).

   The train station was bustling with commuters.

• (to move busily) flit, hustle, scamper, scurry
• (to exhibit an energetic abundance) abound, brim, bristle, burst, crawl, swell, teem

• French: s'affairer
• German: hasten
• Italian: affaccendarsi
• Russian: суетиться

• French: activer
• Russian: кишеть
• Spanish: abundar