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hussy

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hus⋅sy

  [huhs-ee, huhz-ee]
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–noun, plural -sies.
1. a brazen or immoral woman.
2. a mischievous, impudent, or ill-behaved girl.
Origin:
1520–30; earlier hussive housewife

Synonyms:
1. trollop, slut. 2. baggage, minx.
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hus·sy   (hŭz'ē, hŭs'ē)   
n.   pl. hus·sies

  1. A woman considered brazen or immoral.

  2. A saucy or impudent girl.


[Alteration of Middle English houswif, housewife; see housewife.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

hussy 
1530, "mistress of a household, housewife," alt. of M.E. husewif, from huse "house" + wif "wife." Gradually broadened to mean "any woman or girl," and by 1650 was being applied to "a woman or girl who shows casual or improper behavior," and a general derogatory sense had overtaken the word by 19c. "It is common to use housewife in a good, and huswife or hussy in a bad sense." [Johnson]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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