- a variation of hoyden.
hoiden
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Talking never mended matters; Jack was at the hoiden age, and had to grow into tidiness and womanhood by-and-by.
From Esther : a book for girls by Rosa Nouchette Carey
Little Madge is a friend of Nelly's,—a mischievous, blue-eyed hoiden.
From Dream Life A Fable Of The Seasons by Donald Grant Mitchell
I cannot recollect without indignation, the jokes and hoiden tricks, which knots of young women indulged themselves in, when in my youth accident threw me, an awkward rustic, in their way.
From Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
Again and again, to the brass blare of some hoiden tune, she set the words of the lyric that "she liked the feel of," and she danced on and on.
From Friendship Village by Zona Gale
With redbud cheeks and bluet eyes, Big eyes, the homes of happiness, To meet me with the old surprise, Her hoiden hair all bonnetless.
From The Garden of Dreams by Madison J. Cawein
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