Departure Soon Come...
Try using a better dictionary. Here's the current OED:
Hussy:
1. The mistress of a household; a thrifty woman: = HOUSEWIFE 1. Obs.
2. A rustic, rude, opprobrious, or playfully rude mode of addressing a
woman.
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.
Note 2!. Now where's the immoral?
Cheers
Lady Pilot wrote:
I wasn't using one until now. I pulled my American Heritage College from
the shelf and it says:
1. A woman considered brazen or immoral.
Then there's dictionary.com...which is identical.
LP
"MC" wrote:
What dictionary are you using?
Cheers
Lady Pilot wrote:
"MC" wrote:
Hussy: Saucy, mischievous, brazen.
Yep, I'd say you are a hussy -as a matter of public record.
The word also means immoral. Flirting is immoral? hmmm
LP
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