hoyden
Americannoun
adjective
noun
Other Word Forms
- hoydenish adjective
- hoydenishness noun
- hoydenism noun
Etymology
Origin of hoyden
1585–95; perhaps < Middle Dutch heyden boor, heathen
Example Sentences
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Ms. Peters is neither the hoyden type nor the winking type, at least not since her days as a self-parodying chorine.
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2018
Gemma, the little hoyden that Sebastian has picked up and lives with contentedly and illegally, knows it is there before the others do.
From Time Magazine Archive
Annie was a curly-haired hoyden about 12 years old, incredibly wise, philosophical, capable, generous.
From Time Magazine Archive
Farrar made her Carmen a hoyden as incalculable as the wind, kept it popular in Manhattan to the end of her regime.
From Time Magazine Archive
She was still a hoyden girl of fourteen in spite of her womanly status.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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