hoyden
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
But women soon decided she was an impossible mixture of bluestocking and hoyden.
From Time Magazine Archive
Part hoyden, part waif, and part Irish, this author has a Chaplinesque flair for comic mischief.
From Time Magazine Archive
Underneath the hoyden there is a serious and remarkably mature young woman who knows exactly what she wants.
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
