Lexicographical Neighbors of Hussif
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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