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- hussy noun [ C ] old-fashionedoffensiveus/ˈhʌs.i/uk/ˈhʌs.i/ a rude word for a woman or girl who is thought to have a lot of sexual partners :
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If someone refers to a girl or woman as a hussy, they are criticizing her for behaving in a sexually immoral way.
The meaning of HUSSY is a lewd or brazen woman. How to use hussy in a sentence.
There are five meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun hussy, two of which are labelled obsolete, and one of which is considered derogatory. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
- From The American Heritage® Dictionary of The English Language, 5th Edition.
- From The Century Dictionary.
- From The GNU Version of The Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- From Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun A woman considered to be brazen or promiscuous.noun A saucy or impudent girl or young woman.noun A case for scissors, needles, thread, etc. Also housewife, hussif.noun The mistress of the house: same as housewife.noun A pert, wilful woman or girl; a frolicsome or mischievous girl; a quean; a jade; a wench: used either in reproach or jocosely.noun A case or bag. See housewife, 2.noun obsoleteA housewife or housekeeper.noun A worthless woman or girl; a forward wench; a jade; -- used as a term of contempt or reproach.noun A pert girl; a frolicsome or sportive young woman; -- used jocosely.noun obsolete A housewife or housekeeper.noun A cheekyor disrespectful girl; a worthless woman, a woman showing inappropriate or improper behaviour.noun obsolete A case or bag for needles, thread, etc.Google Preview. hussy. [LME]‘You brazen hussy!’ is now the sort of thing someone might call a female friend as a joke, but until the mid 20th century hussy was a serious term for an immoral woman. The original hussy was far more respectable, though—she was a housewife.
May 21, 2019 · If you want to insult a woman, call her a prostitute. If you want to insult a man, call him a woman. Nearly every word the English language offers to describe a woman has, at some point...
