hussy

“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

And a good boy, too, who would never swear or drink or leave his poor old mother while he ran off with some young hussy.

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

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

Then when the sun set, the great delight of these young hussies was to stop and look at the mountebanks.

From L'Assommoir by Émile Zola

Shall I take them to the kitchen sir——" "For you and the other idle hussies to gape and grin at?

From In the Yule-Log Glow, Book II Christmas Tales from 'Round the World by Harrison S. (Harrison Smith) Morris

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

Hewers of wood and drawers of water, princes and potentates, shy-shrinking maidens and brazen-faced hussies, all saying, "I am going to be married."

From The Kempton-Wace Letters by Jack London