Definition of "hussy" []

• A woman considered brazen or immoral. (noun)
• A saucy or impudent girl. (noun)

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• "He muttered a period in which the term hussy was solely audible."
• "I'm to be called a hussy, am I, after working my knuckles off for you, and slaving for thirty years after your crooked carcass?"
• "Gervaise, who accused her of doing it to enrage them, set herself above the scandal; she might meet her daughter on the street, she said; she wouldn't even dirty her hand to cuff her; yes, it was all over; she might have seen her lying in the gutter, dying on the pavement, and she would have passed by without even admitting that such a hussy was her own child."