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[ adjective ] used of boisterous girls

Synonyms

tomboyish hoyden

Used in print

(Irving Fineman, Woman of Valor: The Life of Henrietta...)

Neither was Henrietta hoydenish like Jo , who frankly wished she were a boy and had deliberately shortened her name , which , like Henrietta 's , was the feminine form of a boy 's name .

Related terms

spirited

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[ adjective ] used of girls; wild and boisterous

Synonyms

tomboyish

Related terms

unwomanly

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