hussy
noun
a brazen or immoral woman.
hussies
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pluralof hussy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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
This perpetual spying on my actions became at last intolerable and I was on the point of sending the two hussies about their business when an accident put an end to the state of affairs.
From The Uttermost Farthing A Savant's Vendetta by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman
Look where you please, lass, and thy old father will uphold thee in it; and I only wish your blue eyes could shoot pins into the lying hussies.
From Giles Corey, Yeoman A Play by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Well, last week, you must know His girl,—the blind young chit, who hawks about his wares,— She takes it in her head to come no more—such airs These hussies have!
From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Helen Archibald Clarke
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 Jules de Goncourt
