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

"And that pack of worthless hussies," her mother resumed, "that come out on the stage, and begun to kick" "Laws, mother!" the girl shouted, "I thought you said you had your eyes shut!"

From A Hazard of New Fortunes — Volume 2 by William Dean Howells

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 Nathaniel Hawthorne

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 Émile Zola

And as to what you say about your lawsuit, you know, sister Hannah, I have quite a celebrated lawyer, because, for my sins, I have a never-ending case against cooks, the hussies!

From Stories and Pictures by Isaac Loeb Peretz