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hus·sy

(hŭz′ē, hŭs′ē)

n. pl. hus·sies

1. A woman considered to be brazen or promiscuous.

2. A saucy or impudent girl or young woman.

[Alteration of Middle English houswif, housewife; see housewife.]

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hussy

(ˈhʌsɪ; -zɪ)

n, pl -sies

1. a shameless or promiscuous woman

2. dialect a folder for needles, thread, etc

[C16 (in the sense: housewife): from hussif housewife]

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hus•sy

(ˈhʌs i, ˈhʌz i)

n., pl. -sies.

1. a brazen or disreputable woman.

2. a mischievous or impudent girl.

[1520–30; earlier hussive housewife]

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Noun

hussy - a woman adulterer

adulteress, fornicatress, loose woman, strumpet, trollop, slut, jade

adulterer, fornicator - someone who commits adultery or fornication

hussy

noun (Old-fashioned) slut, tart (informal), strumpet, baggage (informal, old-fashioned), tramp (slang), jade, wanton, minx, wench (archaic), slapper (Brit. slang), scrubber (Brit. & Austral. slang), trollop, floozy (slang), quean (archaic) Are you going to sunbathe naked? You wanton hussy!

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hussy

noun

A vulgar promiscuous woman who flouts propriety:

baggage, jade, slattern, slut, tart, tramp, wanton, wench, whore.

Slang: floozy.

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Mensch Schickse

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hussy

[ˈhʌsɪ] N → fresca f
she's a little hussy → es una fresca

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hussy

[ˈhʌsi] n (humorous) → dévergondée f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

hussy

n (= pert girl) → Fratz m (inf), → (freche) Göre (inf); (= whorish woman) → Flittchen nt (pej); a brazen or wanton hussy → ein schamloses Flittchen

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You've disgraced yourself like the lowest of hussies. I'd treat you differently, but I'm sorry for your father, so I will conceal it."

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Some of the women looked like servant-girls, and some were painted hussies, but for the most part they were shop-girls.

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the hair which is not on the heads of your hussies one finds in your omelettes.

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I fooled them in this way for three years without their finding it out, but as time wore on and I was now in my fourth year, in the waning of moons, and many days had been accomplished, those good for nothing hussies my maids betrayed me to the suitors, who broke in upon me and caught me; they were very angry with me, so I was forced to finish my work whether I would or no.

Nor, again, do I like having my feet washed; I shall not let any of the young hussies about your house touch my feet; but, if you have any old and respectable woman who has gone through as much trouble as I have, I will allow her to wash them."

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The text itself looks in turn at Arabs' religions before Islam, Arab hussies, and Arab thieves.

Al-Maqrizi's al-Habar 'an al-basar Vol. V, Sections 1-2: The Arab Thieves

Career: Lucker made her TV debut in 1996's Brazen Hussies, and later that year appeared in Coronation Street.

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"Hoop Hussies" tells the story of star player Jackson Midas, the NBA's latest star and his cross overs with love and everything else.

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Career Lucker made her TV debut in 1996's Brazen Hussies, and later that year appeared in Coronation Street.

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Murder and mayhem in Oxford CORPSES popping up all over Oxford, old feuds resurfacing and hussies trying to steal Robbie's broken heart.

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Male characters are largely misogynist jerks while their female companions divide neatly into sensible girls and hussies incapable of keeping their breasts covered.

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Male characters are largely misogynist jerks while their female companions divide neatly into sensible girls and brazen hussies who are incapable of keeping their breasts covered.