bustle about/round etc• Servants, porters, farriers and fletchers bustled about.• Waitresses bustled aboutbearing what appeared to be an apparently limitlesssupply of red and white wines.• Gaveston bustled about in the darkness, found a tinder, and a cresset torchflared into life.• She bustled round, putting on kettles and opening tins of biscuits and cake.• Kawasaki techniciansbustling round the testbike confidently tell me it is the best bike yet.• She was unprepared for it and her nervousness increased tenfold as she bustled about to get his tea.
(1500-1600) Probably from buskle“to prepare”((16-17 centuries)), from busk“to get ready, prepare”((13-21 centuries)), from Old Norsebuask“to prepare yourself”