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hussy

[huhs-ee, huhz-ee] / ˈhʌs i, ˈhʌz i /


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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

But when the Great Lover married his hussy and began uxoriously washing diapers and doing kitchen chores to please her, his prestige began to wane.

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

Oh no; it must be merely the impertinence of those unblushing hussies; and we can only wonder how such respectable ladies should have responded to a summons that was not meant for them.

From Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Peety," she cries—"peety for a wheen licht-heided hussies that lo'e the man best that tells the bonniest lees, or speaks them fairest.

From The McBrides A Romance of Arran by Sillars, John

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 Michelet, Jules

She was allowed twenty minutes to go from the Rue de la Goutte-d'Or to the Rue du Caire, and it was enough, for these young hussies have the legs of racehorses.

From L'Assommoir by Zola, Émile




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