英语词汇hussy的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

hussy. Hussy, a bold or lewd woman, was originally no more than another word for housewife, simply a phonetic reduction of the earlier term, which was first pronounced hussif. Justly or not, housewives were associated so often with impudence, boldness, or lewdness that the word hussy began to be used as early as the 17th century to describe bold and lewd women, possibly to provide a distinction in the language between most housewives and such women. Over the years hussy became more degraded, until we find Henry Fielding writing in Tom Jones (1749): “Hussy . . . I will make such a saucy trollop as yourself know that I am not a proper subject of your discourse.”

词汇	hussy
词源	hussy. Hussy, a bold or lewd woman, was originally no more than another word for housewife, simply a phonetic reduction of the earlier term, which was first pronounced hussif. Justly or not, housewives were associated so often with impudence, boldness, or lewdness that the word hussy began to be used as early as the 17th century to describe bold and lewd women, possibly to provide a distinction in the language between most housewives and such women. Over the years hussy became more degraded, until we find Henry Fielding writing in Tom Jones (1749): “Hussy . . . I will make such a saucy trollop as yourself know that I am not a proper subject of your discourse.”
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