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hoyden🔊

(archaic) A rude, uncultured or rowdy girl or woman.

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It was the same conflicting emotion that made her desire to appear a delicate and high-bred lady with boys and to be, as well, a hoyden who was not above a few kisses.
Not all ladies in my profession are as that shameless hoyden, Mrs Charke, that has brought such distress through her malicious conduct and ill repute upon her worthy father, Mr Cibber; far from it, sir.

Like a hoyden: high-spirited and boisterous; saucy, tomboyish.

To behave in a hoydenish manner.

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