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bustling

[buhs-ling] / ˈbʌs lɪŋ /








ADJECTIVE
humming
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STRONG
ADJECTIVE
hustling
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Ms. Rahmani's company trained 600 people in China last year and sets up franchises in China to teach butling "with a modern twist," she says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2014

Students stay in touch on the school's Facebook page, instructors keep teaching notes on iPads and a postgrad butling app is in the works.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2014

British troops race to capture a German tank in Libya, circa 1942 John Fernandes was a butler in the merchant navy but his butling days were done after the fighting.

From BBC • Nov. 10, 2012

Anything's better than going through dinner from soup to dessert all alone under the fishy eye of that butling image of a Jenkins.

From Viviette by Locke, William John

For another week he kept this in sight, the schooner dodging the bergs that by now drove by in squadrons, and even bumping and butling through drift and slush ice.

From A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West by Norris, Frank




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