HUSSY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hussy mean? 

• HUSSY (noun)
  The noun HUSSY has 1 sense:

1. a woman adulterer

  Familiarity information: HUSSY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUSSY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A woman adulterer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

adulteress; fornicatress; hussy; jade; loose woman; slut; strumpet; trollop

Hypernyms ("hussy" is a kind of...):

adulterer; fornicator (someone who commits adultery or fornication)

 Context examples 

On the very day that we fought over the little hussy, she went off with Evan ap Price, a long-legged Welsh dagsman.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You hussy, how dare you talk in that way?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Mrs. Jennings wrote to tell the wonderful tale, to vent her honest indignation against the jilting girl, and pour forth her compassion towards poor Mr. Edward, who, she was sure, had quite doted upon the worthless hussy, and was now, by all accounts, almost broken-hearted, at Oxford.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

“The hussy!” cried Lady Loring clenching her broad right hand.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)