hoyden
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
The best and most engaging number in his show is a violin duet in which he plays Getting to Know You with a pig-tailed hoyden named Toni Marcus.
From Time Magazine Archive
Whatever else the horrendous hoyden may be, she is a hot movie property, originally bought by Bardot Producer Raoul J. Levy for a record-breaking $57,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
She was still a hoyden girl of fourteen in spite of her womanly status.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
