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Verve vs Hustle - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between verve and hustle

is that verve is excitement of imagination such as that which animates a poet, artist, or musician, in composing or performing while hustle is a state of busy activity.

As a verb hustle is

to rush or hurry.

verve

English

Noun

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  • Excitement of imagination such as that which animates a poet, artist, or musician, in composing or performing
  • artistic energy and enthusiasm
  • vigour, vitality and liveliness
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  • , year=2012 , date=April 9 , author=Mandeep Sanghera , title=Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=After spending so much of the season looking upwards, the swashbuckling style and swagger of early season Spurs was replaced by uncertainty and frustration against a Norwich side who had the quality and verve to take advantage}}
  • rapture, enthusiasm
  • spirit, energy
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  • 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.
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  • 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

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