Word to the Wise: Hoyden

A "hoyden" (HOID’n) – possibly from the Dutch for "heathen" – is a bold, boisterous, high-spirited girl.

Example (as used by Mel Gussow in a New York Times review of Shakespeare’s As You Like It): "She [Joanne Camp as Rosalind] is a graceful hoyden, on the edge between expressing her womanly passion and savoring her own impersonation of a man."

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