LekhoriLekhoriA cover to protect and hide the back panel of a computer or other office machine.
A frame worn underneath a woman's skirt, typically only protruding from the rear as opposed to the earlier more circular hoops.
All the portraits that hang on the walls of the living room are, I realize, of my mother's family: miniatures of her great-aunts in Victorian bustles and elaborate feathered hats; a gilt-framed oil of her great-great-great-uncle as a boy in pastoral England, wearing a gold riding coat over white jodhpurs and sitting astride a white steed, a King Charles spaniel yapping at them from the foreground of the canvas.
To move busily and energetically with fussiness (often followed by about).
The commuters bustled about inside the train station.
A surname from German.
From Middle English bustlen, bustelen, bostlen, perhaps an alteration of *busklen (> Modern English buskle), a frequentative of Middle English busken (“to prepare; make ready”), from Old Norse búask (...
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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.