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Hustle vs Justle - What's the difference?

hustle | justle |

As verbs the difference between hustle and justle

is that hustle is to rush or hurry while justle is to jostle.

As a noun hustle

is a state of busy activity.

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

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    References

    justle

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To jostle.
  • * Bible, Nahum ii. 4
    • The chariots shall rage in the streets; they shall justle one against another in the broad ways.
  • * 1776 — , Wealth of Nations , page 759
    • Where the competition is free, the rivalship of competitors, who are all endeavouring to justle one another out of employment, obliges every man to endeavour to execute his work with a certain degree of exactness.
  • * Addison
    • We justled one another out, and disputed the post for a great while.
  • * 1939 , , Additional Poems , IX
  • *:When the bells justle in the tower
  • *:The hollow night amid,
  • *:Then on my tongue the taste is sour
  • *:Of all I ever did.