Brustle vs Bustle - What's the difference?
brustle | bustle |
To crackle; to rustle.
To make a show of fierceness or defiance; to bristle.
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.
(computing) A cover to protect and hide the back panel of a computer or other office machine.
(historical) A frame worn underneath a woman's skirt, typically only protruding from the rear as opposed to the earlier more circular hoops.
To move busily and energetically with fussiness (often followed by about ).
*, II.3.6:
To teem or abound (usually followed by with''); to exhibit an energetic and active abundance (of a thing). ''See also bustle with .
As nouns the difference between brustle and bustle
is that brustle is (obsolete|or|dialect) a bristle while bustle is an excited activity; a stir.As verbs the difference between brustle and bustle
is that brustle is to crackle; to rustle while bustle is to move busily and energetically with fussiness (often followed by about ).brustle
English
Verb
(brustl)- (Gower)
- (Otway)
bustle
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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
Derived terms
* hustle and bustleVerb
- The commuters bustled about inside the train station.
- I was once so mad to bussell abroad, and seek about for preferment […].
- The train station was bustling with commuters.