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Hoiden

adj, noun, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Alternative form of hoyden. alt-of, alternative
Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of hoyden. alt-of, alternative

    "Elfride saw her father then, and went away into the wind, being caught by a gust as she ascended the churchyard slope, in which gust she had the motions, without the motives, of a hoiden; the grace, without the self-consciousness, of a pirouetter."

Verb
  1. 1
    To romp rudely or indecently. archaic

    "get a scratch, but we always discovered upon examining, that they had been hoidening with the young apprentices."

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