hussy
An abbreviation of housewife, but now always used as a term of reproach; as, How now, hussy? or She is a light hussy.
–From the 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.
–From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
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