hoyden
Example Sentences
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Ms. Peters is neither the hoyden type nor the winking type, at least not since her days as a self-parodying chorine.
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2018
In a flap of pigtails, this little hoyden in a party frock climbed up on the stage.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gemma, the little hoyden that Sebastian has picked up and lives with contentedly and illegally, knows it is there before the others do.
From Time Magazine Archive
But women soon decided she was an impossible mixture of bluestocking and hoyden.
From Time Magazine Archive
She was still a hoyden girl of fourteen in spite of her womanly status.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
