adj
Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.
Be careful crossing that busy street.
To-morrow is a busy day.
Engaged with or preoccupied by an activity or person.
The director cannot see you now: he's busy.
Her telephone has been busy all day.
Having much work to do; having much to get done.
Near-synonym: swamped
Finding the time to work out and cook healthy meals is easily pushed to the wayside in our ordinary, busy lives.
Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.
Flowers, stripes, and checks in the same fabric make for a busy pattern.
Officious; meddling.
I will be hanged if some eternal villain, Some busy and insinuating rogue, Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office, Have not devised this slander; I'll be hanged else.
noun
A police officer.
I remember playing on a building site once and coming across a five-pound note. I could hardly believe it when I spotted it poking out of the rubble. Excitedly, I ran straight home and gave it to my mum. I was hero of the hour until I got into trouble with the busies – the police – soon afterwards for pinching a bottle of milk from a float.
verb
To make somebody busy or active; to occupy.
On my vacation I'll busy myself with gardening.
They busied themselves with the tea.