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

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

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

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

It clutched her shawl in hoydenish jest, tore one end of it free from her grasp, and ran its invisible, icy fingers down her neck.

From 'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands by Taylor, H. Weston