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Hoyden (noun) means a girl or woman who behaves in a rough, badly-mannered or boisterous way.

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A girl or woman who behaves in a rough, badly-mannered or boisterous way.

"It was the same conflicting emotion that made her desire to appear a delicate and high-bred lady with boys and to be, as well, a hoyden who was not above a few kisses." — Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind (1936)

"Not all ladies in my profession are as that shameless hoyden, Mrs Charke, that has brought such distress through her malicious conduct and ill repute upon her worthy father, Mr Cibber; far from it, sir." — John Fowles, A Maggot (1985)

"Tabitha is lighting the candles in the sconces. A great, strong, heavy girl, a hoyden, not pretty, her face distinguished only by youth, by health." — Andrew Miller, Ingenious Pain (1997)

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