Definition of "hoiden" []

• Alternative form of hoyden. (noun)
• To romp rudely or indecently. (verb)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "'She rides to please her horse now, but she'll have him as quiet as yours before long,' rejoined her son, both a little angry and a little amused at her being called a hoiden who was to him like an angel grown young with aeonian life."
• "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."
• "May was a promising girl, "almost a hoiden," the neighbors said."