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

During such passages, the women, looking hoydenish in ankle socks, are reminders of dissonance and jazz to come.

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

We must have been a great trial to her, because we were a noisy, hoydenish lot.

From A House Party with the Tucker Twins by Speed, Nell