- a variation of hoyden.
hoiden
Example Sentences
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May was a promising girl, "almost a hoiden," the neighbors said.
From Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness by Robert S. Carroll
Well, I suppose I must endure that also; an aristocratic lecture on the one hand, and the uncouth affections of a hoiden on the other.
From The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton
It was not so long since the princess had been a hoiden among them, abounding in the life which rushes to extravagant action.
From The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
I cannot recollect without indignation, the jokes and hoiden tricks, which knots of young women indulged themselves in, when in my youth accident threw me, an awkward rustic, in their way.
From Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
Little Madge is a friend of Nelly's,—a mischievous, blue-eyed hoiden.
From Dream Life A Fable Of The Seasons by Donald Grant Mitchell