1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v.
1694. Congreve, Double Dealer, iv., 3. When I was of your age, hussy, I would have held fifty to one I could have drawn my own picture.
1697. Vanbrugh, Æsop, i., 1. Hark you hussy. You can give yourself airs sometimes, you know you can.
1708. Mrs. Centlivre, The Busy-Body, iv., 2. I’ll charm you, housewife. Here lies the charm that conjured this fellow in.
1708. Prior, Poems (Aldine ed. ii., 270), ‘The Insatiable Priest.’ To suppress all his carnal desires in their birth At all hours a lusty young hussy is near.
1720. Swift, Poems, ‘A Portrait’ (Chalmers, English Poets, 1810, xi., 448). A housewife in bed, at table a slattern.
1728. Swift, Poems, ‘My Lady’s Lamentations’ (Chalmers, English Poets, 1810, xi., 460). Consider before You come to threescore, How the hussies will fleer Whene’er you appear.
1731. C. Coffey, The Devil to Pay, i. Don’t you know, hussy, that I am king in my own house.
1732. Henry Fielding, The Mock Doctor, i. Ay, hussy, a regular education; first at the charity-school where I learned to read.
1751. Smollett, Peregrine Pickle, c. xviii. He supposed the object of his love was some paltry hussy, whom he had picked up when he was a boy at school.