Hustle vs Bustle - What's the difference?

Bustle is a synonym of hustle.

As verbs the difference between hustle and bustle

is that hustle is to rush or hurry while bustle is to move busily and energetically with fussiness (often followed by about).

As nouns the difference between hustle and bustle

is that hustle is a state of busy activity while bustle is an excited activity; a stir.

hustle

English

Verb

To rush or hurry.

I'll have to hustle to get there on time.

* 1922 , (Sinclair Lewis), Chapter 12

Men in dairy lunches were hustling' to gulp down the food which cooks had ' hustled to fry

To con or deceive; especially financially.

The guy tried to hustle me into buying into a bogus real estate deal.

To bundle, to stow something quickly.

* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)

There was a person called Nana who ruled the nursery. Sometimes she took no notice of the playthings lying about, and sometimes, for no reason whatever, she went swooping about like a great wind and hustled them away in cupboards.

To dance the hustle, a disco dance.

To play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge.

To sell sex, to work as a pimp.

To be a prostitute, to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money.

(informal) To put a lot of effort into one's work.

To push someone roughly, to crowd, to jostle.

There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office, under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.

Noun

(en noun)

A state of busy activity.

A type of disco dance.

Derived terms

* hustle and bustle * hustler * hustly

Anagrams

References

bustle

English

Noun

(en noun)

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.

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

(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.

Derived terms

* hustle and bustle

Verb

To move busily and energetically with fussiness (often followed by about ).

The commuters bustled about inside the train station.

*, II.3.6:

I was once so mad to bussell abroad, and seek about for preferment […].

To teem or abound (usually followed by with''); to exhibit an energetic and active abundance (of a thing). ''See also bustle with .

The train station was bustling with commuters.

Synonyms

* (to move busily) flit, hustle, scamper, scurry * (to exhibit an energetic abundance) abound, brim, bristle, burst, crawl, swell, teem