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  • noun Plural form of hoyden.

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Examples

  • Tossing it aside, she boldly faced him, knowing she must look like the most shameless of hoydens kneeling before him with her hair tumbling every which way and her cheeks and breasts still flushed from the pleasure he had given her.

    The Devil Wears Plaid Teresa Medeiros 2010

  • As Nahma Sandrow describes it, “Throughout her career she specialized in playing romping, innocent young hoydens and, enormous eyes brimming with tears, sensitive girls and wildly weeping mothers.”

    Theater in the United States. 2009

  • Two feet away, Rachel was surrounded by hoydens screeching about how lucky she was to have a boyfriend like Sean.

    The Boys Next Door Jennifer Echols 2007

  • Two feet away, Rachel was surrounded by hoydens screeching about how lucky she was to have a boyfriend like Sean.

    The Boys Next Door Jennifer Echols 2007

  • Two feet away, Rachel was surrounded by hoydens screeching about how lucky she was to have a boyfriend like Sean.

    The Boys Next Door Jennifer Echols 2007

  • Two feet away, Rachel was surrounded by hoydens screeching about how lucky she was to have a boyfriend like Sean.

    The Boys Next Door Jennifer Echols 2007

  • Myabe Dad can keep the PRC's economic patronage of this country going strong by marrying one of these hoydens off to a Politiburo member.

    The Chimes at Midnight 2004

  • “Suddenly we have two hoydens in the family — three when Morgan joins us next year.”

    Slightly Married Balogh, Mary 2003

  • It was composed of different branches of a numerous family connection, where there were the usual proportion of old uncles and aunts, comfortable married dames, superannuated spinsters, blooming country cousins, half-fledged striplings, and bright-eyed boarding-school hoydens.

    The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 2002

  • “Since I can only manage two hoydens and one bedraggled cat at a time, I fear the holly will have to wait.”

    A GIFT OF LOVE Judith McNaught 1995

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