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
“Use your power,” she said, “and make the hussy fall madly in love with the vilest and most despicable creature there is in the whole world.”
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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
Englishwomen who do good by stealth and never blush to find it Fame, because Fame is a great deal too busy with rascals and hussies ever to trouble herself about them!
From That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 1 by Frances Eleanor Trollope
Here I be, lass; and it will go hard if the hussies can see the black man and old Giles in one place.
From Giles Corey, Yeoman A Play by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
One hears of "artful hussies" and "artful dodgers."
From William of Germany by Stanley Shaw
And the black creature opposite—and that infernal girl as had the face to eat pots of strawberries at twenty francs! they might as well have taken me too, the hussies!
From Germinie Lacerteux by Jules de Goncourt
