hoydenish

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Slyly, she begins by underplaying the grand lady affectations; she’s a Dolly who might really have lived on the Lower East Side, who still has an accent and a coarse, hoydenish swagger.

From New York Times • Jul. 12, 2017

Maidens revolt in every third novel these days but here is a maiden whose technique is neither kittenish nor hoydenish.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the way he stops to pick up a hoydenish little mountain girl.

From Time Magazine Archive

Such hoydenish antics have long irked Phil Wrigley, a pioneer softball patron who can remember when the game was known as kittenball among Chicago's early devotees.

From Time Magazine Archive

My mission will be to bring order out of chaos—to reduce all those who entertain rebellion to submission—to try to turn vulgar, hoydenish little girls into ladies.”

From Girls of the Forest by Meade, L. T.