Synonyms for hoydenish
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : hoid-n |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɔɪd n |
Top 10 synonyms for hoydenish Other synonyms for the word hoydenish
Définition of hoydenish
Origin :- 1590s, of unknown origin; perhaps from Dutch heiden "rustic, uncivilized man," from Middle Dutch heiden "heathen" (see heathen). Originally in English "rude, boorish fellow;" sense of "ill-bred, boisterous female" first recorded 1670s.
- As in girlish : adj juvenile
- As in mannish : adj manlike
- She had emerged from the awkwardness and heaviness of the hoydenish age.
- Extract from : « The Fighting Edge » by William MacLeod Raine
- We must have been a great trial to her, because we were a noisy, hoydenish lot.
- Extract from : « A House Party with the Tucker Twins » by Nell Speed
- Ann Veronica decided that "hoydenish ragger" was the only phrase to express her.
- Extract from : « Ann Veronica » by H. G. Wells
- It is with very little fascination that we watch the posturing of our hoydenish polkas or our ill-bred slangy waltzes.
- Extract from : « Studies in Modern Music, Second Series » by W. H. Hadow
- I really began to think that the only hoydenish people I had ever seen were ladies and gentlemen.
- Extract from : « That Boy Of Norcott's » by Charles James Lever
- If the chief character is of the other sex we are dragged through her dreamy girlhood, or hoydenish.
- Extract from : « Fanny Herself » by Edna Ferber
- At her first introduction she is somewhat too hoydenish for the mistress of the noble D'Arlon.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 70, No. 433, November 1851 » by Various
- Self-willed and thoughtless—even rude and hoydenish—we may think her in these days of gentler manners and more guarded speech.
- Extract from : « Historic Girls » by E. S. Brooks
- In fact the care-free, hoydenish girl seemed to have ripened into a strong-hearted, wholesome, healthful woman.
- Extract from : « The Golden Road » by Frank Waller Allen
- Her manner was boyish, hoydenish at times, and although convent-trained, she was inclined to balk at restraint in any form.
- Extract from : « The Financier » by Theodore Dreiser
Antonyms for hoydenish
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