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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

But women soon decided she was an impossible mixture of bluestocking and hoyden.

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