What is "hoydenish"

Usage examples of "hoydenish".

Being Comtesse, Meg thought rebelliously, inwardly reverting to the hoydenish youngest Miss Ashe again, meant that everyone spoke to her as though she were some sort of grand institution, not a woman at all.

Upon such an instrument did the heavenly maid beguile the time when she was yet uncouthly young--at the hoydenish age when men also cajoled her with clicking sticks and the beating of hollow logs, and music was but a variety of noise.

Bella smiled pertly, delighted with her hoydenish treatment of him and smug in the knowledge that he would come back for more of the same.

What a capital name Veronica Trollope would be for a hoydenish young woman in a society novel!

Being Comtesse, Meg thought rebelliously, inwardly reverting to the hoydenish youngest Miss Ashe again, meant that everyone spoke to her as though she were some sort of grand institution, not a woman at all.