bustling Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb move or cause to move energetically or busily
    hustle; bustle; bustle about.
    • The cheerleaders bustled about excitingly before their performance
  2. adjective satellite full of energetic and noisy activity
    • a bustling city

WordNet


Bus"tling adjective
Definitions
  1. Agitated; noisy; tumultuous; characterized by confused activity; as, a bustling crowd. "A bustling wharf." Hawthorne.

Webster 1913