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Definition of Hoydenism
1. Noun. Masculinity in women (especially in girls and young women).
Definition of Hoydenism
1. Noun. The behaviour of a hoyden. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hoydenism
| howzit hox hox gene hox genes hoxed hoxes hoxing hoy hoya hoyas | hoyden hoyden(a) hoydened hoydening hoydenish hoydenism (current term) hoydens hoyed hoyin hoying | hoyles hoyman hoymen hoys hp hr hr. hrivna hrivnas hrmph |
Literary usage of Hoydenism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Godey's Magazine by Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1896)
"Such a combination of brimming mirth and divine tenderness—the one as free from
hoydenism as the other is from bathos—is given possibly only to one or two ..."
2. An American in the Making: The Life Story of an Immigrant by Marcus Eli Ravage (1917)
"... couples and its Easter bonnets, its socials and its watches, its clear-headed
emphasis on the things of this world, its innocent, child-like hoydenism. ..."
3. Manners; Or, Happy Homes and Good Society All the Year Round by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1868)
"... become far too much the custom to forbid any thing which may lead to rough
play or rudeness in any shape; and thus, in avoiding the Scylla of hoydenism, ..."
4. The English Illustrated Magazine (1908)
"... a firm, well- rounded, almost protruding chin, served to remove any suggestion
of hoydenism that her slim figure might at first sight have engendered. ..."
5. Fraser's Magazine (1875)
"... nor do gushing girls rush in, all health and hoydenism, to get her to ' settle
with mamma ' about to-morrow's boating party or next week's picnic. ..."
6. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1873)
"Oh, I have nothing to say against her, only your taste was so utterly opposed to
anything like hoydenism or fastness." " So it is now, ..."
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