Definition of "hoidens" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hoiden. (verb)

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• "This done, the devil, the farmer, and their gangs, hied them to market, and there the farmer presently made good money of his radishes; but the poor devil took nothing; nay, what was worse, he was made a common laughing-stock by the gaping hoidens."
• "The altercation waxed hot in words, which moved the gaping hoidens of the sottish Parisians to run from all parts thereabouts."
• "The altercation waxed hot in words, which moved the gaping hoidens of the sottish Parisians to run from all parts thereabouts, to see what the issue would be of that babbling strife and contention."