hussy
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“Hey, miss Honey Bey. It’s Dolly P. You know that hussy with the good hair you sang about?” she says on the track.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2024
In the interlude "Dolly P," Parton references "Jolene" with, "You know that hussy with the good hair you sing about?/ Reminded me of someone I knew back when."
From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2024
At 50 minutes, I was certain that a heart attack was imminent, but death was preferable to losing to that hussy.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 1, 2017
And a good boy, too, who would never swear or drink or leave his poor old mother while he ran off with some young hussy.
From Time Magazine Archive
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When my husband Clyde left me for that no-count hussy up on Farish Street, one they call Cocoa, I figured I better shut the door for good on that kind a business.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
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Rowlandson looked around and saw that hussies and thieves were thriving not just on the streets but in elegant salons and prosperous businesses as well.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2011
Look where you please, lass, and thy old father will uphold thee in it; and I only wish your blue eyes could shoot pins into the lying hussies.
From Giles Corey, Yeoman A Play by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
This perpetual spying on my actions became at last intolerable and I was on the point of sending the two hussies about their business when an accident put an end to the state of affairs.
From The Uttermost Farthing A Savant's Vendetta by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman
And when she found herself alone, and went back towards the Rue Pirouette, she reflected that those three cackling hussies were not worth a rope to hang them.
From The Fat and the Thin by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
"Off with thee, O laziest of hussies and good for nothing of baggages," cried the fisherman, "away with thee this instant; perchance he hath a copper to lend us."
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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