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

It has the dignity of a hoyden who scorns the hypocrisy of petticoats.

From Time Magazine Archive

Part hoyden, part waif, and part Irish, this author has a Chaplinesque flair for comic mischief.

From Time Magazine Archive

Annie was a curly-haired hoyden about 12 years old, incredibly wise, philosophical, capable, generous.

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