Word.ws English Dictionary

rustling up

rustling up is the present participle and gerund of rustle up.

Meaning of rustle up

Verb

rustle up (third-person singular simple present rustles up, present participle rustling up, simple past and past participle rustled up)

  1. (idiomatic) To forage for, or (figuratively) to quickly prepare, something.
    • I'll see if I can rustle up a meal before the guests start arriving in 30 minutes.

Questions about rustling up

What is rustling up the present participle and gerund of?
Rustling up is the present participle and gerund of rustle up.

Words near rustling up in the dictionary

  1. rustleth
  2. rustlike
  3. rustlin'
  4. rustling
  5. rustling someone's jimmies
  6. rustling up
  7. rustlingly
  8. rustlings
  9. rustly
  10. Rustman
  11. Rusto

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: rustling up (page history and authors); rustle up (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: “rustling up.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/rustling_up. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.