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# hussy

«hussy» in Mova's school dictionary: **old use, now rude: a bold or cheeky girl or woman, used…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (hussies)

### meaning for a pupil

old use, now rude: a bold or cheeky girl or woman, used as an insult. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hussy/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in old tales, a scolding word a mother uses for a daughter who answers back

### examples

- "You shall go, hussy!" said the mother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hussy/#x1)
- The pert hussy answered back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hussy/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hussy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hussy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.