busy
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
busy/ˈbɪzi/
▶adjective (busier, busiest)
- 1 having a great deal to do.
■ (of a place) full of activity or people.
- 2 (of a person) presently occupied; engaged.
■ chiefly N. Amer. (of a telephone line) engaged.
- 3 excessively detailed or decorated.
– derivatives
busily adverb,
busyness noun.
busily adverb,
busyness noun.
– origin OE bisgian (v.), bisig (n.).
'busy' also found in these Oxford entries:
activity
- affairé
- bizzy
- business
- bustle
- busy bee
- busy Lizzie
- busywork
- ear
- engaged
- exercise
- eye
- futz
- go
- hive
- hop
- hubbub
- hurly-burly
- hustle
- impatiens
- ish
- make-work
- metropolis
- occupy
- overbusy
- pragmatic
- road pricing
- run
- slack
- strip mall
- tamper
- trot
