hustlement

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English

Etymology 1

From Middle English ostelment, borrowed from Old French ostillement, ultimately from Vulgar Latin *usitilium, from neuter plural *usitilia, from Latin utensilia (“utensils”).

Alternative forms

Noun

hustlement (countable and uncountable, plural hustlements)

  1. (UK, Yorkshire, US, Virginia, law, obsolete) Miscellaneous household items; odds and ends.[1]
    • 1567, John Fortescue, chapter 36, in Robert Mulcaster, transl., A Learned Commendation of the Politique Lawes of Englande‎, London: Richard Tottel:
      Theye haue allso abundaunce of bed coueryngs in their houses, and of all other wollen stuffe. They haue greate store of all hustlements and implements of houshold.
    • 1664, Henry Power, Experimental Philosophy‎, London: John Martin and James Allestry, Preface:
      the minute Bodies and smallest sort of Creatures about us, which have been by them [the ancients] but sleightly and perfunctorily described, as being the disregarded pieces and huslement of the Creation
  2. (UK, Yorkshire, obsolete) A mixed gathering of persons, or things.[2]

Etymology 2

From hustle +‎ -ment.

Noun

hustlement (uncountable)

  1. (Caribbean) The act of hustling.
    Synonyms: hustle, jostle, rush
    • 1956, Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners‎, Toronto: TSAR, published 1991, page 16:
      […] in the hustlement of getting off the train nobody remember Henry and a guard had was to wake him up.
    • 1966, Errol Hill, Strictly Matrimony, Scene 1, in Woodie King and Ron Milner (eds.), Black Drama Anthology, New York: Columbia University Press, 1972, p. 555,
      I like Sunday breakfast. No hustlement. And I like how you does prepare my meal good.

References

  1. ^ Bennett Wood Green, Word-Book of Virginia Folk-Speech, Richmond, 1899, p. 197.
  2. ^ C. Clough Robinson, A Glossary of Words pertaining to the Dialect of Mid-Yorkshire, London: Trübner, 1876, p. 64.
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