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
Even before that, she was spotted as a talented hoyden and mimic in Second City revues, where she did a host of impressions in a night.
From Time Magazine Archive
As Gittel Mosca, the heartbroken Bronx-to-Bohemia hoyden of Seesaw, the young star still had an uncertain luster.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a flap of pigtails, this little hoyden in a party frock climbed up on the stage.
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
