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

Strachey's strangest alliance was with a woman, of all people�a hoydenish little kook named Dora Carrington, described by a friend as "a tin of mixed biscuits."

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The Andrews Sisters, bawling, hoydenish Queens of the Juke Box, gave their parents, a Minneapolis Greek restaurateur named Andreos, and their Norwegian mother a whopping 32nd-wedding-anniversary present: one-fourth of the singers' earnings for life.

From Time Magazine Archive

She had the most unbounded admiration for her stately, handsome grandmother, who by some strange attraction of opposites, had an especially soft place in her heart for her hoydenish little namesake.

From Cricket at the Seashore by Richards, Harriet Roosevelt