Anglo-Irish. Bustle.
Hence Fooster v. intr., to bustle off.
1847. Le Fanu, T. O’Brien, v. 25. Where is it you’re going, my colleen beg, in all this foosther, an’ at this time o’ day?
1850. N. & Q., 1st Ser. II. 153. I beg to insert the proverb of ‘Full of fun and fooster, like Mooney’s goose.’
1892. Jane Barlow, Irish Idylls, III. 56. Larry brought home the hen that had foosthered off with herself down the bog.
