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Dalliance vs Bustling - What's the difference?

dalliance | bustling |

As nouns the difference between dalliance and bustling

is that dalliance is playful flirtation; amorous play while bustling is a bustle; a busy stir.

As a verb bustling is

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dalliance

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Playful flirtation; amorous play.
  • *
    • As in the season of rutting (an uncouth phrase, by which the vulgar denote that gentle dalliance , which in the well-wooded forest of Hampshire, passes between lovers of the ferine kind),
  • A wasting of time in idleness or trifles.
  • *'>citation
  • A sexual relationship, not serious but often illicit.

    • Synonyms

    * (a wasting of time) dawdling, idling, trifling * (playful flirtation) flirtation * (sexual relationship) affair

    Related terms

    * dallier * dally * dallying

    bustling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

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