stin

"Das a puzzler, massa," gasped Quashy, who had been rendered almost speechless by surprise, "if de bu'stin'-power what's in my heart just now would on'y go into my muscles, I'd snap dem ropes like Samson."

The Rover of the Andes A Tale of Adventure on South America 1859

Wot made it come 'ome to me was, that I seed there a little boy as I' appened to know was one o 'the dirtiest, wickedest, sharpest little willains in London -- a mere spider to look at, but with mischief enough to fill a six-fut man to bu'stin' -- an 'there' ee was, clean an 'jolly, larnin' his lessons like a good un -- an 'no sham neither, cos' e'd got a good spice o 'the mischief left, as was pretty clear from the way' ee gave a sly pinch or pull o 'the hair now an' again to the boys next him, an 'drawed monkey-faces on his slate.

The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands 1859

As did this vote in which the citizen tried to add a "stin" to Franken's name.

CNN Transcript Dec 20, 2008 2008

'Twas Cornelius Rowe, all red-faced and het up, but bu'stin 'with news.

The Depot Master Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

Besides leavin 'me with a game prop, it come near bu'stin' up the fam'ly.

Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907

They'd figger the camp was abandoned an 'consider themselves justified as philanthropists into bu'stin' open anything that looked good -- like this tunnel.

Rimrock Trail 1906

She bu'st her rocker last night when she read what he said about her, an 'she says bu'stin' a rocker ought to show better than any words how mad it made her.

Susan Clegg and a Man in the House Anne Warner 1891

Accordingly, rigged out, as he expressed it, in a well-mended and brushed pilot-cloth coat; a round blue-cloth cap; a pair of trousers to match, and a pair of new shoes, Billy found himself speeding towards the great city with what he styled "a stiff breakfast under hatches, four or five shillings in the locker, an 'a bu'stin' heart beneath his veskit."

The Young Trawler 1859

Possiblement de bu'stin 'of de gun in his troat might do ver vell.

The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood 1859

-- Don't eat so much, Butterface, else bu'stin 'will surely be your doom. "

The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole 1859