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单词 hoyden
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Definition of hoyden in English:

hoyden

noun ˈhɔɪd(ə)nˈhɔɪdn
dated
  • A boisterous girl.

    ‘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.

Derivatives

  • hoydenish

  • adjective ˈhɔɪd(ə)nɪʃˈhɔɪd(ə)nɪʃ
    dated
    • One Catholic priest had been critical of the curriculum, saying, ‘If you would make girls hoydenish, give them algebra.’
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A touching passage, one of the piece's several trios, casts the tiny, hoydenish Julie Tice as a childlike outsider yearning to be part of a teen-dream romance.
      • When exactly had the hoydenish young girl he used to tease turned into such a beauty?

Origin

Late 16th century (denoting a rude or ignorant man): probably from Middle Dutch heiden (see heathen).

 
 

Definition of hoyden in US English:

hoyden

nounˈhɔɪdnˈhoidn
dated
  • A boisterous girl.

    “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.

Origin

Late 16th century (denoting a rude or ignorant man): probably from Middle Dutch heiden (see heathen).

 
 
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