hoyden
Example Sentences
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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
As Gittel Mosca, the heartbroken Bronx-to-Bohemia hoyden of Seesaw, the young star still had an uncertain luster.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
