hussies
- plural of hussy.
Example Sentences
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Rowlandson looked around and saw that hussies and thieves were thriving not just on the streets but in elegant salons and prosperous businesses as well.
From New York Times • May 15, 2011
One hears of "artful hussies" and "artful dodgers."
From William of Germany by Shaw, Stanley
And the black creature opposite—and that infernal girl as had the face to eat pots of strawberries at twenty francs! they might as well have taken me too, the hussies!
From Germinie Lacerteux by Goncourt, Jules de
What with roystering fellows and smooth-tongued gallants, and with silly, empty-headed hussies like that Giulietta, one has much ado to keep the best of them straight.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 by Various
And to-day I've had more to do than to go fetching and carrying, and never a soul to speak to but they two hussies and the lad, since Benacre went on the land.
From Sophia A Romance by Weyman, Stanley John
