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
But women soon decided she was an impossible mixture of bluestocking and hoyden.
From Time Magazine Archive
Farrar made her Carmen a hoyden as incalculable as the wind, kept it popular in Manhattan to the end of her regime.
From Time Magazine Archive
Annie was a curly-haired hoyden about 12 years old, incredibly wise, philosophical, capable, generous.
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
