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Definition of hoyden in English: hoydennoun ˈhɔɪd(ə)nˈhɔɪdn dated A boisterous girl. 〈旧〉爱嬉闹的顽皮姑娘 ‘I've warned you before, you young hoyden.’ Example sentencesExamples - But is the hoyden mode a constant, or does it sometimes go underground?
- I can wait for a docile, biddable, beautiful chit who will worship the ground I walk upon, unlike that spitfire of a hoyden.
- Both she and her parents think of her as a wild hoyden.
- Much to my disappointment, the girl is turning into a hoyden.
- I would rather be a hoyden then a simpering idiot.
- Come, where is the little hoyden with the hot temper and a pitchfork in her hand who dares stare down men twice her size when she is angry, eh?
- Kate had changed before his eyes, from the pigtailed hoyden of his youth to a captivating, irresistible woman.
- Father, wrote to me and asked that I come and teach you how to present yourself as a cultured young lady and not the hoyden that you are.
- A part of her noticed, right before she screeched at him like the hoyden Granmama often said she was, that it was the farthest seat in the room from where she was sitting.
- She was presented, as usual, as ‘an eccentric playwright and poetess’, ‘a boisterous hoyden in her youth, and a woman of violent temper in her maturer years’.
- I would not be married well if I were a blue-stocking hoyden.
OriginLate 16th century (denoting a rude or ignorant man): probably from Middle Dutch heiden (see heathen). Definition of hoyden in US English: hoydennounˈhɔɪdnˈhoidn dated A boisterous girl. 〈旧〉爱嬉闹的顽皮姑娘 “I've warned you before, you young hoyden.” Example sentencesExamples - She was presented, as usual, as ‘an eccentric playwright and poetess’, ‘a boisterous hoyden in her youth, and a woman of violent temper in her maturer years’.
- I can wait for a docile, biddable, beautiful chit who will worship the ground I walk upon, unlike that spitfire of a hoyden.
- Kate had changed before his eyes, from the pigtailed hoyden of his youth to a captivating, irresistible woman.
- A part of her noticed, right before she screeched at him like the hoyden Granmama often said she was, that it was the farthest seat in the room from where she was sitting.
- I would rather be a hoyden then a simpering idiot.
- Much to my disappointment, the girl is turning into a hoyden.
- Come, where is the little hoyden with the hot temper and a pitchfork in her hand who dares stare down men twice her size when she is angry, eh?
- But is the hoyden mode a constant, or does it sometimes go underground?
- Father, wrote to me and asked that I come and teach you how to present yourself as a cultured young lady and not the hoyden that you are.
- Both she and her parents think of her as a wild hoyden.
- I would not be married well if I were a blue-stocking hoyden.
OriginLate 16th century (denoting a rude or ignorant man): probably from Middle Dutch heiden (see heathen). |