Hussy

Definitions

1. A housewife or housekeeper.
   obsolete
2. A sexually immoral woman.
3. A cheeky or disrespectful girl; a woman showing inappropriate or improper behavior.
4. A case or bag for needles, thread, etc.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“WIRTHIN. Well, I should think⟳ so! They just dote on that hussy—can't seem to get⟳ enough of her. Gretchen tells me so herself. And the care she takes of them!”

“She called him `pig' in bastard Arabic, and he called her `hussy' in good English, but these amenities were forgotten in the face⟳ of the catastrophe that had overwhelmed her at the hands of her Queen.”

“Molly the dairymaid came a little way from the rickyard, and said she would pluck the pigeon that very night after work⟳. She was always ready to do anything for us boys; and we could never quite make⟳ out why they scolded her so for an idle hussy indoors. It seemed so unjust. Looking back, I recollect she had very beautiful brown eyes.”

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