hoyden
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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
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
It has the dignity of a hoyden who scorns the hypocrisy of petticoats.
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
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