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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HUSS'Y, n. [contracted from huswife,housewife.]
1. A bad or worthless woman. It is used also ludicrously in slight disapprobation or contempt. Go, hussy, go.
2. An economist; a thrifty woman.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a woman adulterer [syn: adulteress, fornicatress, hussy, jade, loose woman, slut, strumpet, trollop]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural hussies) Etymology: alteration of Middle English huswif housewife, from hus house + wif wife, woman Date: 1505 1. a lewd or brazen woman 2. a saucy or mischievous girl

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -ies) derog. an impudent or immoral girl or woman. Etymology: phonetic reduction of HOUSEWIFE (the orig. sense)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hussy Hus"sy, n. [Contr. fr. huswife.] 1. A housewife or housekeeper. [Obs.] 2. A worthless woman or girl; a forward wench; a jade; -- used as a term of contempt or reproach. --Grew. 3. A pert girl; a frolicsome or sportive young woman; -- used jocosely. --Goldsmith.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hussy Hus"sy, n. [From Icel. h?si a case, prob. fr. h?s house. See House, and cf. Housewife a bag, Huswife a bag.] A case or bag. See Housewife, 2.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Housewife House"wife`, n. [House + wife. Cf. Hussy.] 1. The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household. --Shak. He a good husband, a good housewife she. --Dryden. 2. (Usually pronounced ?.) [See Hussy, in this sense.] A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for other articles of female work; -- called also hussy. [Written also huswife.] --P. Skelton. 3. A hussy. [R.] [Usually written huswife.] --Shak. Sailor's housewife, a ditty-bag.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(hussies) If someone refers to a girl or woman as a hussy, they are criticizing her for behaving in a shocking or immoral way. (HUMOROUS, OLD-FASHIONED) N-COUNT [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Jade, quean, base woman, sorry wench.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

An abbreviation of housewife, but now always used as a term of reproach; as, How now, hussy? or She is a light hussy.

Moby Thesaurus

Jezebel, bad woman, baggage, bitch, boldface, brazenface, broad, chippy, chutzpanik, clitoromaniac, cocotte, drab, easy lay, easy woman, floozy, frail sister, grisette, harridan, hysteromaniac, jade, jezebel, loose woman, malapert, minx, nymphet, nympho, nymphomaniac, pickup, pup, puppy, quean, saucebox, slattern, slut, smart aleck, smart-ass, smarty, smarty-pants, snip, strumpet, swaggerer, tart, tramp, trollop, trull, upstart, uteromaniac, wanton, wench, whippersnapper, whore, wise guy, wise-ass