hoiden
Example Sentences
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Talking never mended matters; Jack was at the hoiden age, and had to grow into tidiness and womanhood by-and-by.
From Esther : a book for girls by Rosa Nouchette Carey
Miss Hastings had been prepared to see a hoiden, an awkward, unfledged schoolgirl, one who, never having seen much of good society, had none of the little graces and charms that distinguish young ladies.
From Love Works Wonders A Novel by Charlotte M. Brame
A light-hearted, sportive girl, with an incontinent overflow of spirits, is condemned as a hoiden.
From Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays by Timothy Titcomb
I cannot recollect without indignation, the jokes and hoiden tricks, which knots of young women indulged themselves in, when in my youth accident threw me, an awkward rustic, in their way.
From Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
May was a promising girl, "almost a hoiden," the neighbors said.
From Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness by Robert S. Carroll
