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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.





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... know, you careless hussy!" exclaimed Mrs. Fishley, seizing her by the arm, and lifting her roughly out of ...
— Down The River - Buck Bradford and His Tyrants • Oliver Optic
... room fingering the key in her pocket. Sonya was sitting sobbing in the corridor. "Marya Dmitrievna, for God's sake let me in to her!" she pleaded, but Marya Dmitrievna unlocked the door and went in without giving her an answer.... "Disgusting, abominable... In my house... horrid girl, hussy! I'm only sorry for her father!" thought she, trying to restrain her wrath. "Hard as it may be, I'll tell them all to hold their tongues and will hide it from the count." She entered the room with resolute ...
— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy
... after him. But all the way from the threshold to the bureau she kept murmuring to herself: "I don't care, I don't care . . . I'll be like the rest o' the women I've seen. I'll give that Nina Micheltorena cards an' spades. There'll be another hussy around here. There'll be—" The threat was never finished. Instead, with eyes that fairly started out of their sockets, she listened to the sound of a couple of shots, the last one exploding so loud and distinct ...
— The Girl of the Golden West • David Belasco
... lying, deceitful hussy, and she's made a fool of all of us. I give you my word of honour that she told us she was married; I'll fetch you the letter.' Mrs Griffith rose from her chair, but Miss Reed put out a hand ...
— Orientations • William Somerset Maugham
... opened in New York and Pennsylvania. The first horse-drawn street cars began running in New York. On July 2, the Agricultural Society of New York was founded, and the first public trial was held of Obett Hussy's new reaping machine, which Cyrus MacCormick also claimed as his invention. The device was destined to give a tremendous impetus to agriculture in the development of the western prairies. About the same time the last surviving signer ...
— A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year - Volume Two (of Three) • Edwin Emerson


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