Noun
A housewife or housekeeper.
A worthless woman or girl; a forward wench; a jade; -- used as a term of contempt or reproach.
A pert girl; a frolicsome or sportive young woman; -- used jocosely.
A case or bag. See Housewife, 2.
Source: Webster's dictionaryNothing is more chilling than such a spectacle of unremitting self-sacrifice. This is a woman born to be abandoned by her ungrateful husband at the very pinnacle of success she helped to make for him, for a shameless hussy of nineteen. Germaine Greer