hussyness
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]hussyness (uncountable)
- The quality of being a hussy.
- 1895, George Saintsbury, Corrected Impressions: Essays on Victorian Writers, page 162:
- And though Jane herself is much more than an underbred little hussy, I fear there is underbreeding and hussyness in her, where she is not a mere photograph.
- 2017, April Arnold-Gillar, Ghosts and Physics:
- She was shocked at her brazen hussyness.