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Justle vs Bustle - What's the difference?

justle | bustle |

As verbs the difference between justle and bustle

is that justle is to jostle while bustle is to move busily and energetically with fussiness (often followed by about ).

As a noun bustle is

an excited activity; a stir.

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.

    • 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

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