bustle vs delay

bustle

verb
  • To move busily and energetically with fussiness (often followed by about). 

  • To teem or abound (usually followed by with); to exhibit an energetic and active abundance (of a thing). 

  • To push around, to importune. 

noun
  • An excited activity; a stir. 

  • A cover to protect and hide the back panel of a computer or other office machine. 

  • A frame worn underneath a woman's skirt, typically only protruding from the rear as opposed to the earlier more circular hoops. 

delay

verb
  • To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time. 

  • To put off until a later time; to defer. 

noun
  • A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity. 

  • An audio effects unit that introduces a controlled delay. 

  • Synonym of promise (“object representing delayed result”) 

  • An amount of time provided on each move before one's clock starts to tick; a less common time control than increment. 

How often have the words bustle and delay occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )