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
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On the way he stops to pick up a hoydenish little mountain girl.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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."
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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