hoiden
[hoid-n]
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hoyden
or hoi·den
[hoid-n]
- a boisterous, bold, and carefree girl; a tomboy.
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- boisterous; rude.
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Origin of hoyden
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In the more innocent sense of the word she looked like her name, 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.
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Meantime the railroad was completed, and Mr. Pearl came to the Judge's early one morning and called for Hoiden.
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Only an hour later Mr. Pearl and Hoiden stood at the new station on Luke's land, waiting for the east-going train.
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When Hoiden saw the letter was for Luke she begged leave to put in a few words of postscript, and she had her way.
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hoiden
- a variant spelling of hoyden
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hoyden
hoiden
- a wild boisterous girl; tomboy
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Word Origin
C16: perhaps from Middle Dutch heidijn heathen
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Word Origin and History for hoiden
hoyden
n.
1590s, of unknown origin; perhaps from Dutch heiden "rustic, uncivilized man," from Middle Dutch heiden "heathen" (see heathen). Originally in English "rude, boorish fellow;" sense of "ill-bred, boisterous female" first recorded 1670s.
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