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How to spell bustle

Bustle is spelled B-U-S-T-L-E.

What it means: A rapid active commotion.

In a sentence: The busy city streets are full of hustle and bustle. ▶

The part people get wrong

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Same family: bustling, bustled, bustlingly, hustle, commotion. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Bustle” likely comes from older words meaning ‘to move noisily’ and appeared in English around the 16th century. Interestingly, in fashion history, a different “bustle” also referred to a padded framework worn under the back of a woman’s skirt in the 1800s to make it stick out.

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