hussy

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They say the hussy is his sparrin' partner, as well as his sweetheart, and that his poor wife is just breakin' her heart over it.

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  1. noun A woman considered brazen or immoral.
  2. noun A saucy or impudent girl.

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  • "And that hussy, the bride o 'the troll-no good can come o' the like o 'that." —  Unicorn Point
  • "What did you say about complete abundance?" chuckled the drunken hussy, and dropped her silk cloak over my face, to cut off her view, no doubt, damn her impudence. —  Flashman And The Dragon
  • "Did I hear any such words lately as spitfire, hussy, and jade, or did I dream them?" —  Gray Lensman
  • They say the hussy is his sparrin' partner, as well as his sweetheart, and that his poor wife is just breakin' her heart over it. —  The Green Flag
  • Griffith did not see the hussy was arranging her own affair as well as his. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Alteration of Middle English houswif, housewife; see housewife.

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  1. Also written hussey, huzzy, and dial. huzz; a reduced form of hussif, huswife, housewife: see housewife.
  2. Also written huzzy; usually regarded as a particular use of hussy = huzzy = huswife = housewife, but according to Skeat from Icelandic hūsi, a case (comp. skæris-hūsi, a scissors-case), from hūs (= Norwegian huss), a house, also a case, = Anglo-Saxon hūs, a house: see house.
 

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