hoiden
noun
hoidenish
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a word derived from
hoiden.
Example Sentences
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But in an instant she recovered something of her old hoidenish composure; and in that moment she remembered, too, how he had seemed to slight her of late, and her pride rebelled hotly.
From Pretty Madcap Dorothy Or, How She Won a Lover by Laura Jean Libbey
Sir Everard certainly was very sorry for that hoidenish Miss Hunsden.
From The Baronet's Bride by May Agnes Fleming
There was the hoidenish young girl, and the decorous, elegant lady smoothing down "the wild little thing."
From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Margaret Fuller
She has dropped her old hoidenish ways and goes about as prim as a Puritan.
From Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes by Maud Wilder Goodwin
There was no mistaking that hearty, hoidenish manner; and seizing both of her hands in mine, I shouted: 'I've found you out—you're a 'country-woman' of mine—a clear-blooded Yankee!'
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 by Various
