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A girl who behaves in a boyish manner
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hoyden
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. used of boisterous girls [syn: hoyden(a) , hoydenish , tomboyish ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Like a hoyden: high-spirited and boisterous; saucy, tomboyish. n. (context archaic English) A rude, uncultured or rowdy girl or woman.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, of unknown origin; perhaps from Dutch heiden "rustic, uncivilized man," from Middle Dutch heiden "heathen" (see heathen ). Originally in English "rude, boorish fellow;" sense of "ill-bred, boisterous female" first recorded 1670s.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hoiden \Hoi"den\, n. [OE. hoydon a lout, rustic, OD. heyden a heathen, gypsy, vagabond, D. heiden, fr. OD. heyde heath, D. heide. See Heathen , Heath .] [Written also hoyden .] A rude, clownish youth. [Obs.] --Milton. A rude, bold girl; a romp. --H. Kingsley. ...
Usage examples of hoyden.
Dashing around like a hoyden, instead of behaving like a proper woman.
Now I shall be labelled a hoyden and, if it had not been for Jack Chiltern, it would be much worse.
Northern Nursery sends out its hordes, and gawky hoydens and hobbletehoys are getting themselves accomplished in the foreign languages, music, drawing, geography, the use of the globes, and the dumb-bells.
Only lowbred hoydens would ride astride even though one has better control of the horse that way.
From the girlish, untidy hoyden, Cressida now stood revealed as an elegant court lady.
Out of the corner of her eye, she realized that Delilah was still standing, looking down in contempt at the hoyden who could get down on her knees in the grass and kindle a fire as well as any boy.