hoyden

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At the proper age for beginning to fashion a conventional young lady, the hoyden was put in a convent, where she underwent some exalting religious experiences; and in 1822 she was assigned to her place in the "established social order" by her marriage at seventeen to M. Dudevant.

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  • He had seen her yelling and jumping and romping with a host of children, and he had seen her agree to an unseemly race with a gentleman, manacled by the ankle, and clinging to his shirt, just above the waistband, just like a hoyden! —  Mary Balogh - A Masked Deception
  • It was obviously written to display the talents of Mrs. Clive, who played in it her favourite character of a hoyden, and, after “interviewing” a number of suitors chosen by her father, finally ran away with Thomas the footman—a course in those days not without its parallel in high life, above stairs as well as below. —  Fielding
  • She had abandoned him in the middle of the gallery and had proceeded to shriek and laugh like a hoyden—or a country bumpkin—with people who were strangers to him. —  0001
  • Although they made her feel like even more of a hoyden, she lifted her chin, refusing to humble herself before them. —  YoursUntilDawn
  • "Is hoyden a dictionary word, or not? —  The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life
 

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  1. From earlier hoyden, a rude youth, probably from Dutch heiden, heathen, boor, from Middle Dutch; see kaito- in Indo-European roots.
 

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/ˈhɔɪdn/
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