hoiden
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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
May was a promising girl, "almost a hoiden," the neighbors said.
From Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness by Robert S. Carroll
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
Again and again, to the brass blare of some hoiden tune, she set the words of the lyric that "she liked the feel of," and she danced on and on.
From Friendship Village by Zona Gale
With redbud cheeks and bluet eyes, Big eyes, the homes of happiness, To meet me with the old surprise, Her hoiden hair all bonnetless.
From The Garden of Dreams by Madison J. Cawein
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