hoydenish

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Slyly, she begins by underplaying the grand lady affectations; she’s a Dolly who might really have lived on the Lower East Side, who still has an accent and a coarse, hoydenish swagger.

From New York Times • Jul. 12, 2017

On the way he stops to pick up a hoydenish little mountain girl.

From Time Magazine Archive

During such passages, the women, looking hoydenish in ankle socks, are reminders of dissonance and jazz to come.

From Time Magazine Archive

Maidens revolt in every third novel these days but here is a maiden whose technique is neither kittenish nor hoydenish.

From Time Magazine Archive

I really began to think that the only hoydenish people I had ever seen were ladies and gentlemen.

From That Boy Of Norcott's by Lever, Charles James