bustle

An excited activity; a stir.

the whirl and bustle of a large metropolis

we are, perhaps, all the while flattering our natural indolence, which, hating the bustle of the world, and drudgery of business seeks a pretence of reason to give itself a full and uncontrolled indulgence.

A 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.

Money; cash.

Why the old clerical's turned coper—a new way of raising the wind——letting his friends down easy—gave you a good dinner, I suppose, Sir John, and took this method of drawing the bustle for it: an old trick of the reverend's.

To move busily and energetically with fussiness (often followed by about).

The commuters bustled about inside the train station.

I was once so mad to bussell abroad, and seek about for preferment […].

To teem or abound (usually followed by with); to exhibit an energetic and active abundance (of a thing).

The train station was bustling with commuters.

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.

A surname from German.