Word.ws English Dictionary

hustlement

hustlement noun: miscellaneous household items; odds and ends.

Noun (1)

hustlement (countable and uncountable, plural hustlements)

  1. (UK, US, Virginia, Yorkshire, obsolete) Miscellaneous household items; odds and ends.
    • Theye haue allso abundaunce of bed coueryngs in their houses, and of all other wollen stuffe. They haue greate store of all hustlements and implements of houshold.1567, John Fortescue, chapter 36, in Robert Mulcaster, transl., A Learned Commendation of the Politique Lawes of Englande, London: Richard Tottel
    • the minute Bodies and smallest sort of Creatures about us, which have been by them [the ancients] but sleightly and perfunctorily described, as being the disregarded pieces and huslement of the Creation1664, Henry Power, Experimental Philosophy, London: John Martin and James Allestry, Preface
  2. (UK, Yorkshire, obsolete) A mixed gathering of persons, or things.

Noun (2)

hustlement (uncountable)

  1. (Caribbean) The act of hustling.
    • […] in the hustlement of getting off the train nobody remember Henry and a guard had was to wake him up.1956, Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners, Toronto: TSAR, published 1991, page 16
    • I like Sunday breakfast. No hustlement. And I like how you does prepare my meal good.1966, Errol Hill, Strictly Matrimony, Scene 1, in Woodie King and Ron Milner (eds.), Black Drama Anthology, New York: Columbia University Press, 1972, p. 555
    Synonyms:
    hustle, jostle, rush

Synonyms of hustlement

Forms of hustlement

pluralhustlements
alternative form (obsolete)huslement

Origin of hustlement

From Middle English ostelment, borrowed from Old French ostillement, ultimately from Vulgar Latin *usitilium, from neuter plural *usitilia, from Latin utensilia (“utensils”).

From hustle + -ment.

Questions about hustlement

What does hustlement mean?
Hustlement means miscellaneous household items; odds and ends.
What part of speech is hustlement?
Hustlement is a noun.
What is the plural of hustlement?
The plural of hustlement is hustlements.

Words near hustlement in the dictionary

  1. hustle-bustle
  2. hustled
  3. hustled up
  4. hustlee
  5. hustlees
  6. hustlement
  7. hustlements
  8. hustler
  9. hustlers
  10. hustles
  11. hustles up

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hustlement (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “hustlement.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hustlement. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.