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Hussy   /hˈəsi/   Listen
noun
Hussy  n.  
1.
A housewife or housekeeper. (Obs.)
2.
A worthless woman or girl; a forward wench; a jade; used as a term of contempt or reproach.
3.
A pert girl; a frolicsome or sportive young woman; used jocosely.



Hussy  n.  A case or bag. See Housewife, 2.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Hussy" Quotes from Famous Books



... like a coyote!—to help you git this plane in shape. You was to take me to Los for pay—but I ain't there yet. I'm stuck here, sick and hungry—I ain't et a mouthful since last night, and then I only had a dish of sour beans that damn' Mex. hussy handed out to me through a window! Me, Bland Halliday, a flyer that has made his hundreds doing exhibition work; that has had his picture on the front page of big city papers, and folks followin' him down the street just to get a look at him! Me—why, a yellow dawg has got the edge ...
— The Thunder Bird • B. M. Bower

... give her a ducking in the mud, near the hovel at the other end of the island," added Nicholas; "and if she comes up again, I'll put her under again with a kick—the hussy." ...
— The Mysteries of Paris V2 • Eugene Sue

... "Hussy! Do you hear that, Louis? Look at her, your Vaurois! She's got the airs of a superannuated barmaid! ...
— The Eight Strokes of the Clock • Maurice Leblanc

... mentioned the two names of the child, she seemed to be eager to talk, and she related its whole history in a most spiteful way. "Ah! the child was alive! Very well; she might flatter herself that she had for a mother a most famous hussy. Yes, Madame Sidonie, as she was called since she became a widow, was a woman of a good family, having, it is said, a brother who was a minister, but that did not prevent her from being very bad." And she explained that she had made her acquaintance when she kept, on the ...
— The Dream • Emile Zola

... property too. Of course, I find her a bit narrer-minded, but that's to be expected, seeing I've lived a lot in the city before I come here, and she's only been up the country; but that Carry's the caution. The hussy! I only asked her over out of kindness, being a woman with a good home as I have, and did you hear her? Them hussies without homes ain't got no call to give themselves airs,—bits of things workin' for ...
— Some Everyday Folk and Dawn • Miles Franklin


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