as in floozie
a boldly flirtatious or sexually promiscuous woman
"Grandma, you hussy!" joked the girl when her grandmother admitted kissing on her first date
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Recent Examples of hussy
Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday and Pat Garrett hang out with a hussy.
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Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2021
Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday and Pat Garrett hang out with a hussy.
—Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2021
Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday and Pat Garrett hang out with a hussy.
—Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2021
Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday and Pat Garrett hang out with a hussy.
—Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2021
Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday and Pat Garrett hang out with a hussy.
—Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2021
Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday and Pat Garrett hang out with a hussy.
—Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2021
Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday and Pat Garrett hang out with a hussy.
—Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2021
Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday and Pat Garrett hang out with a hussy.
—Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2021
Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2021
Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday and Pat Garrett hang out with a hussy.
—Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2021
Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday and Pat Garrett hang out with a hussy.
—Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2021
Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday and Pat Garrett hang out with a hussy.
—Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2021
Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday and Pat Garrett hang out with a hussy.
—Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2021
Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday and Pat Garrett hang out with a hussy.
—Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2021
Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday and Pat Garrett hang out with a hussy.
—Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2021
Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday and Pat Garrett hang out with a hussy.
—Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hussy
Noun
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At some point, Perkins reportedly introduced Millard to a Black prostitute but Millard wanted a White one instead, the news report said, citing warrants.—
Louis Casiano,
Fox News,
24 Mar. 2023
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Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, named after Shields’s controversial first film about a young girl who was a child prostitute, features interviews from her childhood friend and actress Laura Linney and Drew Barrymore and how to contrasted with Shields’s experience in the spotlight.—
Vulture,
Vulture,
22 Mar. 2023
Noun
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In other words, the insecure floozy stereotype has very little basis in reality.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes,
25 Nov. 2024
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Oh, my favorite floozy.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
11 May 2021
Noun
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In this raucous odyssey a wanton minx quests hard across a dreamy landscape of smut, filth and psychics, hustling to lift a curse that has been f*cking her sh*t up.—
Mia Galuppo,
The Hollywood Reporter,
22 Jan. 2025
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In this raucous odyssey a wanton minx quests hard across a dreamy landscape of smut, filth and psychics, hustling to lift a curse that has been f*cking her sh*t up.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
22 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The trooper wasn’t able to catch up or turn on the squad’s emergency lights or sirens before Thompson cut across all four lanes of traffic and turned off the interstate at Lake Street.—
Nick Ferraro,
Twin Cities,
6 June 2025
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The trooper saw a Mercedes-Benz E300 traveling at excessive speed on I-91 south near Cromwell and tried to initiate a traffic stop with lights and sirens.—
Madison Lambert,
NBC news,
6 June 2025
Noun
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Daniels’ first foray into the horror genre shot to No. 1 on Netflix after dropping Aug. 30, which may have a little bit — or a whole lot — to do with Close, who clearly had the time of her life playing a tramp named Alberta.—
Lynette Rice,
Deadline,
2 Sep. 2024
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On March 7, 1913, rescuers were desperately searching the same waters for survivors of the Alum Cine, a British tramp steamer, that exploded while being loaded with 350 tons of dynamite (nine boxcars’ worth) that was bound to Panama for construction of the canal that was underway.—
Frederick N. Rasmussen,
Baltimore Sun,
28 Mar. 2024
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“Hussy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hussy. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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