hustlement

hustlement

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

• huslement (obsolete)

Noun

hustlement (countable and uncountable, plural hustlements)

1. (UK, Yorkshire, US, Virginia, law, obsolete) Miscellaneous household items; odds and ends.[1]
   • 1567, Robert Mulcaster (translator), A Learned Commendation of the Politique Lawes of Englande by John Fortescue, London: Richard Tottel, Chapter 36,

     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, 1991, p. 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.