Meaning of hoydenism | Babel Free

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The behaviour of a hoyden.

countable, uncountable

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“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.”

“After a decade of hoydenism, she developed a strategy called “The Four Man Plan,” or “4MP.””

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