[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That bustles; full of bustle or agitation.
1597. Drayton, Mortimer., 25. A bustling tempests rouzing blasts.
a. 1612. Chapman, Iliad, XIII. 312. From hollow bustling winds engendered storms arise.
1647. Clarendon, Hist. Reb., II. (1843), 49/2. Sir Harry Vane was a busy and a bustling man.
1823. Syd. Smith, Wks. (1859), II. 14/2. A little merry bustling clergyman.
1826. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. II. (1863), 357, note. The rustling bustling silk gown, redolent in every fold of clerical dignity.
1891. J. Hawthorne, Fort. Fool, I. xiv. The bustling period of the day.
Hence Bustlingly adv.
1822. Scott, Nigel, xvii. Reginald Lowestoffe was bustlingly officious and good-natured.
1885. D. C. Murray, Rainbow Gold, II. III. iii. 78. He searched bustlingly for his hat.
