Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who bustles; an active, stirring person.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An active, stirring person.
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- noun One who
bustles ; an active, stirring person.
Etymologies
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Examples
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For this Englishman is a terrible bustler and horrible coil-keeper.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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For this Englishman is a terrible bustler and horrible coil-keeper.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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I am no great bustler at any time; but since being here, I have purposely abstained from all manifestation of curiosity, and never desired or requested to see much; it rouses suspicion, and suspicion rouses distrust, and distrust draws the kris.
The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel
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Cargill's mind, with as much acuteness as the pass of a rapier might have done through his body; and we cannot help remarking, that a forward prater in society, like a busy bustler in a crowd, besides all other general points of annoyance, is eternally rubbing upon some tender point, and galling men's feelings, without knowing or regarding it.
St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801
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For this Englishman is a terrible bustler and horrible coil-keeper.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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EoghanC Winners of the 2009 architectural 3d awards by CGArchitect up at bustler.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009
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But for most the curse only really began to exercise full malignancy with the £135,000 purchase of woolly-nutted bustler Billy Ashcroft from Wrexham in 1977.
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But for most the curse only really began to exercise full malignancy with the £135,000 purchase of woolly-nutted bustler Billy Ashcroft from Wrexham in 1977.
Football news, match reports and fixtures | guardian.co.uk 2009
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It was singular to observe with what freedom from excitement he discussed the most irritating phases of party, -- speaking of the men and events of his own day with as much philosophic calmness as if they belonged to a previous century; not at all deceived, I think, by the temporary notoriety and power which frequently attend the political bustler, -- quite positive, indeed, that many of our "great men" were far inferior to multitudes in private life.
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Cargill’s mind, with as much acuteness as the pass of a rapier might have done through his body; and we cannot help remarking, that a forward prater in society, like a busy bustler in a crowd, besides all other general points of annoyance, is eternally rubbing upon some tender point, and galling men’s feelings, without knowing or regarding it.
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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