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
Annie was a curly-haired hoyden about 12 years old, incredibly wise, philosophical, capable, generous.
From Time Magazine Archive
Whatever else the horrendous hoyden may be, she is a hot movie property, originally bought by Bardot Producer Raoul J. Levy for a record-breaking $57,000.
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
