hoiden

hoiden (plural hoidens)

1. Alternative form of hoyden.
   • 1872 September – 1873 July, Thomas Hardy, A Pair of Blue Eyes. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Tinsley Brothers, […], published 1873, →OCLC:

     Elfride saw her father then, and went away into the wind, being caught by a gust as she ascended the churchyard slope, in which gust she had the motions, without the motives, of a hoiden; the grace, without the self-consciousness, of a pirouetter.

hoiden (comparative more hoiden, superlative most hoiden)

1. Alternative form of hoyden.

hoiden (third-person singular simple present hoidens, present participle hoidening, simple past and past participle hoidened)

1. (archaic) To romp rudely or indecently.
   • January 1710, Jonathan Swift, Tatler Number 5

     get a scratch, but we always discovered upon examining, that they had been hoidening with the young apprentices.

• “hoiden”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• honied

hoiden

1. genitive plural of hoo

• ehdoin