d. 1764. Lloyd, Poems (1774), ‘Chit-Chat.’ Lud! I could beat the hussey down, She’s poured it all upon my gown.
1768. Goldsmith, Good Natured Man, ii. And you have but too well succeeded, you little hussy, you.
1771. Smollett, Humphrey Clinker (ed. 1800, p. 43). And I have been twice in the bath with mistress and na’r a smock upon our backs, hussy.
1782. Cowley, Bold Stroke for a Husband, i., 2. Don C. Now, hussy, what do you expect?
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1786. Burns, The Inventory. Frae this time forth I do declare, I’se ne’er ride horse nor hizzie mair.
1822. Scott, Fortunes of Nigel, ch. xxii. Say nothing of that, housewife, … or I will beat thee—beat thee with my staff.
1829. C. A. Somerset, The Day After the Fair, i. Oh, you hussy! so you were Madame Maypole!
1893. R. le Gallienne, Intro. Liber Amoris, p. xliv. To think of poor Hazlitt gravely lavishing his choice Elizabethan quotations on the hussey.
2. (venery).—The female pudendum. For synonyms, see Monosyllable.