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

She sketches in charming details of her early hoydenish exploits, followed by baby-ballerina days in Cincinnati.

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

"Oh, yes," I said, trying to recall the rather hoydenish children I had seen on the motor trip to Billings' home five years before.

From The Haunted Pajamas by Elliott, Francis Perry