hussy
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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
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
Here I be, lass; and it will go hard if the hussies can see the black man and old Giles in one place.
From Giles Corey, Yeoman A Play by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
And to-day I've had more to do than to go fetching and carrying, and never a soul to speak to but they two hussies and the lad, since Benacre went on the land.
From Sophia A Romance by Stanley John Weyman
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
