Gussie

Or Gus·sy

[guhs-ee]

noun

1. a female given name, form of Augusta.

Example Sentences

My favorite comes in an exchange with the soupy Madeline Bassett in “The Code of the Woosters,” when Bertie comes up with a quote he heard from Jeeves, actually the title of a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, to describe his friend Gussie Fink-Nottle as “a sensitive plant.”

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She won a featured actress award for that last one, with her irrepressible turn as Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins, a schemer with a heart that stays gold.

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Young won for best featured actress in a play for her performance as Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins in the revival of Ossie Davis’s satire “Purlie Victorious.”

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Brown plays Gussie Carnegie, a Broadway diva married to self-centered writer Frank Shepard.

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“This opportunity to represent and be the first Black Gussie is huge and it feels powerful,” Brown says.

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