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hoydenish

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hoy·den  (hoidn)
n.
A high-spirited, boisterous, or saucy girl.
adj.
High-spirited; boisterous.
[From earlier hoyden, a rude youth, probably from Dutch heiden, heathen, boor, from Middle Dutch; see kaito- in Indo-European roots.]
hoyden·ish adj.
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Adj.1.hoydenishhoydenish - used of girls; wild and boisterous
tomboyish
unwomanly - not womanly; "the logical clearness of her arguments...condemned her as eccentric and unwomanly"
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The season also revealed an admirably hoydenish Jaffe matched with a charming, brilliant but slightly nervous Carlos Molina, another of the corps de ballet standouts in his first leading role.
ANOTHER SEASON IN THE SUN by BARNES, CLIVE / Dance Magazine
The perfect picture dissolves as the happy-young-mother facade gives way to reveal hoydenish upstarts.
VIEW OF THE MOTHER'S DAY by Perlmutter, Donna / Dance Magazine
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