Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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bustle

/ˈbʌsəl/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms bustles bustling bustled

  1. noun (countable, uncountable) An excited activity; a stir. “the hum and bustle; a din and bustle”
  2. noun (computing, countable) A cover to protect and hide the back panel of a computer or other office machine.
  3. noun (historical, countable) A frame worn underneath a woman's skirt, typically only protruding from the rear as opposed to the earlier more circular hoops.
  4. noun (UK, slang, obsolete, uncountable) Money; cash.
  5. verb To move busily and energetically with fussiness (often followed by about). “The commuters bustled about inside the train station.”
  6. verb 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.”
  7. verb (transitive) To push around, to importune.
  8. proper noun A surname from German.

Synonyms

ado hustle tournure flit scamper scurry abound brim bristle burst crawl swell teem flurry fuss stir bustle about

Etymology

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 (“to prepare oneself”); or alternatively from a frequentative form of Middle English busten, bisten (“to buffet; pummel; dash; beat”) + -le. Compare also Icelandic bustla (“to splash; bustle”).
The etymology of noun sense 3 is uncertain, perhaps related to busk (“strip in a corset”) or German Buschel.

Possibly an Americanized spelling of South German Bastl or a variant of Bussell.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To move noisily; to be rudely active; to move in a way to cause agitation or disturbance; as, to bustle through a crowd.
  2. noun Great stir; agitation; tumult from stirring or excitement.
  3. noun A kind of pad or cushion worn on the back below the waist, by women, to give fullness to the skirts; --called also bishop, and tournure.

Etymology [Cf. OE. buskle, perh. fr. AS. bysig busy, bysg-ian to busy + the verbal termination -le; or Icel. bustla to splash, bustle.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “bustle”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “bustle” (best matches first).