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hussy

[huhs-ee, huhz-ee]

noun

plural

hussies 
  1. a brazen or immoral woman.

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  2. a mischievous, impudent, or ill-behaved girl.

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hussy

/ -zɪ, ˈhʌsɪ /

noun

  1. a shameless or promiscuous woman

  2. dialecta folder for needles, thread, etc

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of hussy1

1520–30; earlier hussive housewife
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Word History and Origins

Origin of hussy1

C16 (in the sense: housewife): from hussif housewife
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“Hey, miss Honey Bey. It’s Dolly P. You know that hussy with the good hair you sang about?” she says on the track.

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In the interlude "Dolly P," Parton references "Jolene" with, "You know that hussy with the good hair you sing about?/ Reminded me of someone I knew back when."

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Can you tell me how you define the word “hussy”?

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“Poor little sparrow, my eye! Listen, Miss, if I let that young hussy off her lead for five minutes, we’d all be murdered in our beds.”

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Her beloved brothers had been slain by her son because he had made a fool of himself over a shameless hussy who went hunting with men.

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