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
Farrar made her Carmen a hoyden as incalculable as the wind, kept it popular in Manhattan to the end of her regime.
From Time Magazine Archive
But women soon decided she was an impossible mixture of bluestocking and hoyden.
From Time Magazine Archive
It has the dignity of a hoyden who scorns the hypocrisy of petticoats.
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
