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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BUS'TLING, ppr. bus'ling. Stirring; moving actively with noise or agitation.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: full of energetic and noisy activity; "a bustling city"

Merriam Webster's

adjective see bustle I

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bustling Bus"tling (b[u^]s"sl[i^]ng), a. Agitated; noisy; tumultuous; characterized by confused activity; as, a bustling crowd. ``A bustling wharf.'' --Hawthorne.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bustle Bus"tle (b[u^]s"s'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bustled (-s'ld); p. pr. & vb.n. Bustling (-sl[i^]ng).] [Cf. OE. buskle, perh. fr. AS. bysig busy, bysg-ian to busy + the verbal termination -le; or Icel. bustla to splash, bustle.] To move noisily; to be rudely active; to move in a way to cause agitation or disturbance; as, to bustle through a crowd. And leave the world for me to bustle in. --Shak.

Moby Thesaurus

active, agitated, brisk, busy, energetic, eventful, fidgety, fluttering, fluttery, fretful, full of incident, fussing, fussy, hopping, humming, hustling, jumpy, lively, momentous, on the go, phenomenal, popping, restless, stirring, turbulent, unquiet, unsettled