Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A woman considered brazen or immoral.
- n. A saucy or impudent girl.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The mistress of the house: same as housewife.
- n. A pert, wilful woman or girl; a frolicsome or mischievous girl; a quean; a jade; a wench: used either in reproach or jocosely.
- n. A case for scissors, needles, thread, etc. Also housewife, hussif.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete A housewife or housekeeper.
- n. A cheeky or disrespectful girl; a worthless woman, a woman showing inappropriate or improper behaviour.
- n. obsolete A case or bag for needles, thread, etc.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A housewife or housekeeper.
- n. A worthless woman or girl; a forward wench; a jade; -- used as a term of contempt or reproach.
- n. A pert girl; a frolicsome or sportive young woman; -- used jocosely.
- n. A case or bag. See housewife, 2.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a woman adulterer
Etymologies
- A compression of housewife. (Wiktionary)
- Alteration of Middle English houswif, housewife; see housewife. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“He muttered a period in which the term hussy was solely audible.”
“I'm to be called a hussy, am I, after working my knuckles off for you, and slaving for thirty years after your crooked carcass?”
“Gervaise, who accused her of doing it to enrage them, set herself above the scandal; she might meet her daughter on the street, she said; she wouldn't even dirty her hand to cuff her; yes, it was all over; she might have seen her lying in the gutter, dying on the pavement, and she would have passed by without even admitting that such a hussy was her own child.”
“Celebrity Apprentice' recap: The tale of the class act and the 'hussy' - L.A. Now 03/21/2011, 8:02 a.m.”
“People here love to gossip and boys brag and soon you are that American "hussy" just like in the movies.”
“If he calls her 'hussy' again I shall thrash him afterwards.”
“And then she proceeded to purchase some big fish -- a turbot or a salmon -- of a neighbouring dealer, spreading her money out on the marble slab as she did so, for she had noticed that this seemed to have a painful effect upon the "hussy," who ceased laughing at the sight.”
“As soon as she was recognized the respectable matrons of the party began to whisper among themselves, and the words "hussy" and "public scandal" were uttered so loudly that Boule de Suif raised her head.”
“As soon as she was recognized, whispers circulated among the respectable women and the words: "hussy", "public scandal" were spoken so loud that she raised her head.”
“The "hussy" let him come near, and danced away again gracefully.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hussy’.
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Olde Englisc
English words of Anglo-Saxon origin.
onslaught, slain, clove, clave, thrice, nincompoop, scorn, storm, scant, lurk, beneath, atop and 143 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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Gesundheit
Words that sound like sneezes
zucchini, zoology, wysiwyg, woodchuck, withhold, wichita, vacuum, twelfth, syzygy, synchronous, swatch, supersede and 120 more...
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The list of Wordnik words of the day.
panurgic, chapfallen, billingsgate, latration, witticaster, slitheroo, rux, crotchet, mirliton, arenose, ruelle, jane-of-apes and 76 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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grabbable, retuiteando, leaving, fantastic, absolutely, kurwa, hella, ridic, underpass, hate, interlude, plush and 2369 more... -
Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young ...
These words are from Samuel Richardson's novel Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady, 1747-48
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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cattywampus, ingratiate, lackadaisical, exactitude, exfoliate, fulminate, circumnavigation, circuitous, debride, sidle, sequester, chicory and 1002 more...
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chocolate, sesquipedalophobia, discombobulated, callipygian, retronym, squirm, cobalt blue, plethora, onomatopoeia, blowhard, strumpet, shush and 173 more...
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Beknownst1981's list
I love words, especially the ones I make up with my friends.
translucent meat ..., beknownst (knew), plethora, curmudgeon, wanderlust, actually, differentiate, bearded, hobbit feet, female, sexy time, librarian and 220 more...
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monkey, folderol, snark, snarky, flibbertigibbet, faith, asshat, pirouette, avuncular, exegesis, memento mori, verisimilitude and 379 more...
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... as in "by James Joyce"
stately, plump, aloft, gurgling, untonsured, chrysostomos, jowl, parapet, jesuit, indigestion, scutter, noserag and 688 more...
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tomax's Words
legerdemain, yayo, extravasation, wont, faze, coxswain, concomitant, enclave, unguent, rhabdomyolysis, effluent, puerile and 432 more...
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Wordnik Notebooks
All the words from the cover of the Wordnik notebook.
A few words appear twice: frass, cruet, luna, thalweg, and possibly some more.
Careful: Contains spoilers!spilth, frass, fomite, rux, worricow, alizarin, mundungus, parthenocarpy, jib, whinyard, weisure, nimiety and 217 more...
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abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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words describing the sexual parts of life
snog, shag, copulate, intercourse, paraphilia, carnal, fetish, fornicate, abstinence, foreplay, coitus, chastity and 119 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for hussy.

dailyword Eddie called Jessica Rabbit this when Dolores caught him kissing her. Jul 29, 2012
grant_barrett This word was chosen as Wordnik word of the day. Nov 11, 2009
jennarenn Now a woman who'll kiss on a very 1st date,
Is usually a hussy,
And a woman who'll kiss on the second time out,
Is anything but fussy,
But a woman who'll wait 'till the 3rd time around,
Head in the clouds, feet on the ground,
She's the girl he's glad he's found,
She's his Shipoopi.
"Shipoopi" from The Music Man Jun 17, 2007
slumry Brazen hussy was the way I always heard it. Jun 17, 2007
slumry Better to be a bored housewife or a wanton hussy? Jun 17, 2007
sonofgroucho Most hussies are wanton in my experience. May 7, 2007
seanahan This word is actually a reduction of housewife. Feb 26, 2007
seanahan For some reason girls don't like it when I use this term to describe them... Feb 8, 2007