noun
Meaning 1
A housewife or housekeeper.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
hussy
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈhʌsi/
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/ˈhʌzi/
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CMU ARPABET: HH AH1 S IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A sexually immoral woman.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A cheeky or disrespectful girl; a woman showing inappropriate or improper behavior.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: minx
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A case or bag for needles, thread, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: housewife
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
a woman adulterer
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: adulteress, fornicatress, jade, loose woman, slut, strumpet, trollop
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: adulterer, fornicator
History
Etymology
From earlier hussive, hussif, the regular evolution of Middle English houswyf (“housewife”), equivalent to house + wife. Modern housewife is a restoration of the compound (and thus is a doublet), after its component parts had become unrecognisable through regular phonetic change, as well as gradual negative senses and historical factors. The traditional pronunciation of the word is /ˈhʌzi/; the pronunciation with /s/ is a spelling pronunciation.
Across languages
Translations
38 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Azerbaijani: civi — a sexually immoral woman
- Bulgarian: у́личница (úličnica) — a sexually immoral woman
- Finnish: letukka — a sexually immoral woman
- French: traînée — a sexually immoral woman
- German: Flittchen — a sexually immoral woman
- German: Schlampe — a sexually immoral woman
- German: Luder — a sexually immoral woman
- Macedonian: блу́дница (blúdnica) — a sexually immoral woman
- Macedonian: бесра́мница (besrámnica) — a sexually immoral woman
- Macedonian: ули́чарка (ulíčarka) — a sexually immoral woman
- Polish: ulicznica — a sexually immoral woman
- Russian: шлю́ха (šljúxa) — a sexually immoral woman
- Russian: потаску́ха (potaskúxa) — a sexually immoral woman
- Russian: потаску́шка (potaskúška) — a sexually immoral woman
- Russian: блядь (bljadʹ) — a sexually immoral woman
- Turkish: aşüfte — a sexually immoral woman
- Turkish: kokot — a sexually immoral woman
- Turkish: yollu — a sexually immoral woman
- Turkish: kaltak — a sexually immoral woman
- Turkish: sürtük — a sexually immoral woman
- Turkish: orospu — a sexually immoral woman
- Ottoman Turkish: قالتاق (kaltak) — a sexually immoral woman
- Ottoman Turkish: مال (mal) — a sexually immoral woman
- Bulgarian: наха́лница (nahálnica) — a cheeky or disrespectful girl; a woman showing inappropriate or improper behaviour
- Finnish: letukka — a cheeky or disrespectful girl; a woman showing inappropriate or improper behaviour
- French: pécore — a cheeky or disrespectful girl; a woman showing inappropriate or improper behaviour
- French: pimbêche — a cheeky or disrespectful girl; a woman showing inappropriate or improper behaviour
- German: Luder — a cheeky or disrespectful girl; a woman showing inappropriate or improper behaviour
- Irish: toice — a cheeky or disrespectful girl; a woman showing inappropriate or improper behaviour
- Northern Kurdish: qehpik — a cheeky or disrespectful girl; a woman showing inappropriate or improper behaviour
- Macedonian: бесра́мничка (besrámnička) — a cheeky or disrespectful girl; a woman showing inappropriate or improper behaviour
- Russian: де́рзкая девчо́нка (dérzkaja devčónka) — a cheeky or disrespectful girl; a woman showing inappropriate or improper behaviour
- Russian: наха́лка (naxálka) — a cheeky or disrespectful girl; a woman showing inappropriate or improper behaviour
- Russian: ха́мка (xámka) — a cheeky or disrespectful girl; a woman showing inappropriate or improper behaviour
- Russian: бессты́дница (besstýdnica) — a cheeky or disrespectful girl; a woman showing inappropriate or improper behaviour
- Russian: грубия́нка (grubijánka) — a cheeky or disrespectful girl; a woman showing inappropriate or improper behaviour
- Ottoman Turkish: فندقجی (fındıkcı) — a cheeky or disrespectful girl; a woman showing inappropriate or improper behaviour
- Russian: иго́льник (igólʹnik) — (obsolete) a case or bag for needles, thread, etc