- a variation of hoyden.
hoiden
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Talking never mended matters; Jack was at the hoiden age, and had to grow into tidiness and womanhood by-and-by.
From Esther : a book for girls by Rosa Nouchette Carey
Miss Hastings had been prepared to see a hoiden, an awkward, unfledged schoolgirl, one who, never having seen much of good society, had none of the little graces and charms that distinguish young ladies.
From Love Works Wonders A Novel by Charlotte M. Brame
Her curls, with their romp and fun, Were hoiden as wind and sun.
From Myth and Romance Being a Book of Verses by Madison Julius Cawein
I cannot recollect without indignation, the jokes and hoiden tricks, which knots of young women indulged themselves in, when in my youth accident threw me, an awkward rustic, in their way.
From Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
Well, I suppose I must endure that also; an aristocratic lecture on the one hand, and the uncouth affections of a hoiden on the other.
From The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton
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