hoyden
/ˈhɔɪd(ə)n
/noun dated
A boisterous girl: ‘I’ve warned you before, you young hoyden.’...
- She was presented, as usual, as ‘an eccentric playwright and poetess’, ‘a boisterous hoyden in her youth, and a woman of violent temper in her maturer years’.
- Much to my disappointment, the girl is turning into a hoyden.
- Father, wrote to me and asked that I come and teach you how to present yourself as a cultured young lady and not the hoyden that you are.
Derivatives
hoydenish
/ adjective ...- One Catholic priest had been critical of the curriculum, saying, ‘If you would make girls hoydenish, give them algebra.’
- A touching passage, one of the piece's several trios, casts the tiny, hoydenish Julie Tice as a childlike outsider yearning to be part of a teen-dream romance.
- When exactly had the hoydenish young girl he used to tease turned into such a beauty?
Origin
Late 16th century (denoting a rude or ignorant man): probably from Middle Dutch heiden (see heathen).
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