hoydenish

comparative more hoydenish · superlative most hoydenish

1. Somewhat hoyden.

   To his left sat two Hindu students. At his right there was Professor Hagen’s daughter, a hoydenish Drama major.

   1957 March 7, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 3.7, in Pnin, Heinemann, page 80

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   ...the money Lady Penryhn produced was as little as her services were great; she therefore, (guaranteed by a look from her grace) in a kind of mock-hoydenish manner, seized all the purses, emptied them into the auctioneer's hat, and declared that, as every one present had done their best, all were equal benefactors to the charity;...

   1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XLI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 224