BUSTLE ABOUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bustle about mean? 

• BUSTLE ABOUT (verb)
  The verb BUSTLE ABOUT has 1 sense:

1. move or cause to move energetically or busily

  Familiarity information: BUSTLE ABOUT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUSTLE ABOUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move or cause to move energetically or busily

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

bustle; bustle about; hustle

Context example:

The cheerleaders bustled about excitingly before their performance

Hypernyms (to "bustle about" is one way to...):

move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)

"Bustle about" entails doing...:

belt along; bucket along; cannonball along; hasten; hie; hotfoot; pelt along; race; rush; rush along; speed; step on it (move hurridly)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

But "no, she would go down; she could bear it very well, and the bustle about her would be less."

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Norris felt herself defrauded of an office on which she had always depended, whether his arrival or his death were to be the thing unfolded; and was now trying to be in a bustle without having anything to bustle about, and labouring to be important where nothing was wanted but tranquillity and silence.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)