hussy

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

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minx ·  slut ·  huzzy ·  wench ·  reprobate ·  malapert ·  scamp ·  harlot ·  trollop ·  sonofabitch ·  whore ·  puss
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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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/ˈhəzi/
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