hoyden

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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

Part hoyden, part waif, and part Irish, this author has a Chaplinesque flair for comic mischief.

From Time Magazine Archive

Two for the Seesaw balances a downhearted Omaha lawyer, looking for a divorce, with a Bronx-to-Bohemia hoyden, in a funny, moving glimpse of offbeat New York life; with Dana Andrews and Anne Bancroft.

From Time Magazine Archive

Menotti's brassy Amelia, with the Met's Eleanor Steber, kept up the hoyden theme.

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