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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Strachey's strangest alliance was with a woman, of all people�a hoydenish little kook named Dora Carrington, described by a friend as "a tin of mixed biscuits."

From Time Magazine Archive

Such hoydenish antics have long irked Phil Wrigley, a pioneer softball patron who can remember when the game was known as kittenball among Chicago's early devotees.

From Time Magazine Archive

The two looked at each other for a moment, and then the stately woman and the hoydenish girl, with one accord, burst out laughing.

From 'Lizbeth of the Dale by MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller