Definition of Hussif

1. a pocket sewing-kit [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hussif

husking
husking bee
huskings
huskless
husklike
husks
husky
huso
husos
huss
hussar
hussar monkey
hussars
husses
hussies
hussif (current term)
hussifs
hussy
husting
hustings
hustle-bustle
hustle alarm
hustle and bustle
hustled
hustlers
hustles
hustling

Literary usage of Hussif

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"O V. hussif, a case containing thread, needles, and other articles for sewing. (Scand.) ' hussif, that is, house-wife ; a roll of flannel with a pin-cushion ..."

2. A List of Provincial Words in Use at Wakefield in Yorkshire by William Stott Banks (1865)
"HUZZEY, hussif or housewife; but used here to express a careless or bad girl. I THE personal pronoun, is sometimes sounded , almost as in national English; ..."

3. A Remedy for the Evils that Have Caused the Destruction of a Large Portion (1855)
"To every man's kit a hussif with thread, needles, and buttons to be supplied. ... At ~l Alma," in every Russian's kit a well stocked hussif was found ..."

4. Principles of English Etymology by Walter William Skeat (1892)
"... dwelling in, pres. pt. of itia, to dwell. (In no way allied to band.) hussif, a case for needles; due to confusion with ..."

5. Folk-etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in by Abram Smythe Palmer (1882)
"... hurries amain The heaven and the hurricane. DO Rosset ti, Bolinas and Sonnets. HuSSIF, p. 185. Hur hussif wur ..."

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