Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the manners of a hoiden; like or appropriate to a hoiden.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Like, or appropriate to, a hoiden.
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- adjective Alternative form of
hoydenish .
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Examples
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Hertha, the more hoidenish, called into the room: "Come, Effi."
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 Various
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There was no mistaking that hearty, hoidenish manner; and seizing both of her hands in mine, I shouted: 'I've found you out -- you're a
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She has dropped her old hoidenish ways and goes about as prim as a Puritan.
Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes Maud Wilder Goodwin
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I suppose I ought not to wonder if a little of this vigor clings to her manner, making it not hoidenish exactly, but different from the manner of Beacon Street girls, who, after all said and done, have certainly the best breeding of any girls the world over.
Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes Maud Wilder Goodwin
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In my childhood I was particularly fond of the hoidenish amusement of jumping out of our high barn-window, and landing on the straw underneath.
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You were always so wild and hoidenish in your playing.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 Various
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I used to think that I could succeed in living up to her grand manners with better success than the other rather hoidenish young ladies who chanced to be the guests at Grassmere the time I was there.
The Fifth Wheel A Novel Olive Higgins Prouty 1928
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Like raveled red girdles flung down by some hoidenish goddess in mirth
Dreams and Dust 1915
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"She's so hoidenish," observed Anna, to her sister-in-law, when they came to the name of Aileen.
The Financier, a novel Theodore Dreiser 1908
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Like raveled red girdles flung down by some hoidenish goddess in mirth
Dreams and Dust Don Marquis 1907
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