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hussy, huzzy, n.|ˈhʌzɪ|
Also 7 hussie, huzzie, 8–9 hussey, Sc. hizzie.
[A phonetic reduction of housewife, q.v.]
†1. The mistress of a household; a thrifty woman: = housewife 1. Obs.
1530Edin. Burgh Rec. (1871) 30 Na seruandis [shall] tak vther clathis than thar masteris and husseis and thar hous⁓haldis clathis to wesche. 15..Sir J. Moffat Wife of Auchtermuchty iii, Dame, ye maun to the pleugh the morn, I sall be hussy, gif I may. 1722De Foe Col. Jack (1840) 245 Her being so good a hussy of what money I had left her. 1800J. Hurdis Fav. Village 98 His loud hussey, in her cobbled suit..Screams through the village.
2. A rustic, rude, opprobrious, or playfully rude mode of addressing a woman.
1650B. Discolliminium 7 [To a mare] You are mistaken Hussy. 1676Hobbes Iliad (1677) 47 Then Venus vext, ‘Hussie!’ said she, ‘no more Provoke my anger’. 1684Otway Atheist v, Yes, huzzy, and you shall be serviceable to me in the matter. 1749Fielding Tom Jones vii. viii, Hussy,..I will make such a saucy trollop as yourself know, that I am not a proper subject of your discourse. 1853Reade Chr. Johnstone 235 Meg, ye idle hizzy..your pat is no on yet.
3. In some rural districts a mere equivalent of Woman, lass; hence, A strong country woman, a female of the lower orders; a woman of low or improper behaviour, or of light or worthless character; an ill-behaved, pert, or mischievous girl; a jade, minx. Also jocularly or in raillery.
The bad sense was at first mostly with qualification (light, etc.), or contextual.
1647Trapp Comm. Matt. xiv. 8 Such another hussy as this was dame Alice Pierce, a concubine to our Edward III. 1648Bp. Hall Sel. Thoughts §96 The light hussy ‘wipes her mouth’ and [says] it was not she. 1685Crowne Sir C. Nice i. 8 You talk of paltry husses. 1711Steele Spect. No. 242 ⁋3 The young Husseys would persuade me, that to believe one's Eyes is a sure way to be deceived. 1738Swift Pol. Conversat. 56 No, Miss; you are very light; but I don't say, you are a light Hussy. 1741Richardson Pamela II. 117, I, like a little proud Hussy, looked in the Glass and thought myself a Gentlewoman. 1775F. Burney Let. 24 Apr. in Early Diary, He..patted my cheek, and genteely called me a little hussey. 1786Burns Twa Dogs 85 Buirdly chiels, an' clever hizzies. 1795Washington Let. Writ. 1892 XIII. 158 A more..impudent huzzy, is not to be found in the United States. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede 70 The naughtier the little huzzy behaved the prettier she looked. 1889H. F. Wood Englishman Rue Caïn x, That bonnetless, bold hussey round that corner.
†4. A case for needles, thread, etc.: = housewife 3. Obs.
1741Richardson Pamela I. 159 So I..dropt purposely my Hussey. 1824Scott Redgauntlet ch. xxii, A better rope than the string of a lady's hussy.
5. Comb., as † hussy-case = sense 4; † hussy make (cf. housewife's cloth s.v. housewife n. 1 b).
15..Aberd. Reg. V. 16 (Jam.) Ane pair of schetis of ten elne of hussy mak. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xxxix, I have seen the Queen, which gave me a hussy-case out of her own hand.
Hence ˈhussy v. trans., to call ‘hussy’; ˈhussydom, the realm or aggregate of hussies; ˈhussyness, the character of a hussy.
1694Crowne Married Beau iv. Dram. Wks. 1874 IV. 309 Mrs. Lo. Begone! Lio. Begone? I won't be so snapp'd. Mrs. Lo. You won't, hussy? Lio. I won't be hussied neither. 1865Athenæum No. 1981. 499/1 The blackguardism and hussydom of London. 1881Doran Drury Lane II. 147 The leaders of fashion and the gaudiest flowers of husseydom. |