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Busy vs Bustling - What's the difference?

busy | bustling |

As verbs the difference between busy and bustling

is that busy is to make somebody busy, to keep busy with, to occupy, to make occupied while bustling is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between busy and bustling

is that busy is {{cx|slang|UK|Liverpool|derogatory|lang=en}} A police officer while bustling is a bustle; a busy stir.

As an adjective busy

is crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.

busy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.
    • a busy street
  • * Shakespeare
    • To-morrow is a busy day.
  • Engaged in another activity or by someone else.
    • The director cannot see you now, he's busy .
    Her telephone has been busy all day.
    She is too busy to have time for riddles.
  • Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.
    • Flowers, stripes, and checks in the same fabric make for a busy pattern.
  • Officious; meddling.
  • * 1603 , , IV. ii. 130:
    • I will be hanged if some eternal villain, / Some busy and insinuating rogue, / Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office, / Have not devised this slander; I'll be hanged else.

    Related terms

    * busy as a beaver * busy as a bee * busybody * busyness * busy work

    Verb

  • To make somebody busy , to keep busy with, to occupy, to make occupied.
  • * On my vacation I'll busy myself with gardening.
  • To rush somebody.

    • Noun

    (busies)
  • A police officer.

    • Anagrams

    * 1000 English basic words

    bustling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A bustle; a busy stir.
    • the bustlings of waiters in the crowded restaurant