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Hoydenish

adjective
1.
Used of girls; wild and boisterous.  Synonym: tomboyish.






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"Hoydenish" Quotes from Famous Books



... myself of your invitation. To be sure we muster somewhat stronger than you do, I suspect, and, might possibly exhibit, what with your sedate English ideas you would consider an exuberance of spirits, and I am almost afraid that you would think my five fair young sisters rather hoydenish young ladies, compared to your own. One of them, Kathleen, is looking over my shoulder and exclaims, 'Arrah, now Terence, don't be after saying that same, or Leeftenant Rogers will be thinking us a set of wild Irish girls, ...
— The Three Lieutenants • W.H.G. Kingston



Words linked to "Hoydenish" :   unwomanly, tomboyish



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