hoyden
noun
a boisterous, bold, and carefree girl; a tomboy.
hoydenish
-
a word derived from
hoyden.
Example Sentences
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Slyly, she begins by underplaying the grand lady affectations; she’s a Dolly who might really have lived on the Lower East Side, who still has an accent and a coarse, hoydenish swagger.
From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2017
Maidens revolt in every third novel these days but here is a maiden whose technique is neither kittenish nor hoydenish.
From Time Magazine Archive
During such passages, the women, looking hoydenish in ankle socks, are reminders of dissonance and jazz to come.
From Time Magazine Archive
Such hoydenish antics have long irked Phil Wrigley, a pioneer softball patron who can remember when the game was known as kittenball among Chicago's early devotees.
From Time Magazine Archive
Louisa, poor little soul, in her happy, hoydenish childhood, found time one day in a fit of mentality to set down in black and white her chief faults.
From Little Women Letters from the House of Alcott by Louisa May Alcott
