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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

During such passages, the women, looking hoydenish in ankle socks, are reminders of dissonance and jazz to come.

From Time Magazine Archive

Strachey's strangest alliance was with a woman, of all people�a hoydenish little kook named Dora Carrington, described by a friend as "a tin of mixed biscuits."

From Time Magazine Archive

The Andrews Sisters, bawling, hoydenish Queens of the Juke Box, gave their parents, a Minneapolis Greek restaurateur named Andreos, and their Norwegian mother a whopping 32nd-wedding-anniversary present: one-fourth of the singers' earnings for life.

From Time Magazine Archive

For Gerard was a very serious and thoughtful boy, and Sharley, though in outside ways she seemed rather wild and hoydenish, was really very clever and very wise, to be only the age she was.

From My New Home by Brooke, L. Leslie (Leonard Leslie)