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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
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SYLLABICATION:bus·tle
PRONUNCIATION:  bsl
INTRANSITIVE & TRANSITIVE VERB:Inflected forms: bus·tled, bus·tling, bus·tles
To move or cause to move energetically and busily.
NOUN: Excited and often noisy activity; a stir.
ETYMOLOGY:Possibly variant of obsolete buskle, frequentative of busk, to prepare oneself, from Old Norse bask, reflexive of ba, to prepare. See bheu- in Appendix I.
 
 
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