noun
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a shameless or promiscuous woman
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dialect a folder for needles, thread, etc
Etymology
Origin of hussy
1520–30; earlier hussive housewife
Example Sentences
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“Hey, miss Honey Bey. It’s Dolly P. You know that hussy with the good hair you sang about?” she says on the track.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2024
In the interlude "Dolly P," Parton references "Jolene" with, "You know that hussy with the good hair you sing about?/ Reminded me of someone I knew back when."
From Salon • Mar. 29, 2024
At 50 minutes, I was certain that a heart attack was imminent, but death was preferable to losing to that hussy.
From The Guardian • Jul. 1, 2017
But when the Great Lover married his hussy and began uxoriously washing diapers and doing kitchen chores to please her, his prestige began to wane.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Use your power,” she said, “and make the hussy fall madly in love with the vilest and most despicable creature there is in the whole world.”
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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