hussyness
English
Etymology
hussy + -ness
Noun
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.
- 1895, George Saintsbury, Corrected Impressions: Essays on Victorian Writers (page 162)