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bustled

bustled is the simple past and past participle of bustle.

Meaning of bustle

Verb

bustle (third-person singular simple present bustles, present participle bustling, simple past and past participle bustled)

  1. To move busily and energetically with fussiness (often followed by about).
    • The commuters bustled about inside the train station.
    Synonyms:
    flit, hustle, scamper, scurry
  2. To teem or abound (usually followed by with); to exhibit an energetic and active abundance (of a thing).
    • The train station was bustling with commuters.
  3. (transitive) To push around, to importune.
    • Don’t bustle her or fuss or snatch: / A suitor looking at his watch / Is not a posture that persuades / Willing, much less reluctant maids.1981, A. D. Hope, “His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell”, in A Book of Answers

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Adjective

bustled (not comparable)

  1. Having a bustle, as clothing.
    • a bustled dress

Questions about bustled

What does bustled mean?
Bustled means having a bustle, as clothing.
What is bustled the simple past and past participle of?
Bustled is the simple past and past participle of bustle.
What part of speech is bustled?
Bustled is an adjective.

Words near bustled in the dictionary

  1. bustitutes
  2. bustituting
  3. bustitution
  4. bustitutions
  5. bustle
  6. bustled
  7. bustler
  8. bustlers
  9. bustles
  10. bustlesome
  11. bustleth

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bustled (page history and authors); bustle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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