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
When my husband Clyde left me for that no-count hussy up on Farish Street, one they call Cocoa, I figured I better shut the door for good on that kind a business.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
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
One trick’s cured;That lust of giving; Isentrude and Guta,The hussies, came here begging but yestreen,Vowed they were starving.
From The Saint's Tragedy by Charles Kingsley
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 A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others by Julia Thompson von Stosch Schayer
The last act of all, according to Lancre, or at least according to the two bold hussies who made him their fool, was an astounding event to happen in such crowded meetings.
From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Jules Michelet
