hoydenism
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]hoydenism (countable and uncountable, plural hoydenisms)
- The behaviour of a hoyden.
- 1899, Mary A. Ward, Life and works of the sisters Brontë, Introduction to Jane Eyre
- And there can be no doubt that there was in Miss Bronte a curious vein of recklessness, roughness, one might also say - hoydenism - that exists side by side with an exquisite delicacy and a true dignity, and is none the less Irish and Celtic for that.
- 2007 October 14, Liesl Schillinger, “It Adds Up to Love (Check Your Math)”, in New York Times[1]:
- After a decade of hoydenism, she developed a strategy called “The Four Man Plan,” or “4MP.”
- 1899, Mary A. Ward, Life and works of the sisters Brontë, Introduction to Jane Eyre