| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | hoy·den |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  hoid n |
| NOUN: | A high-spirited, boisterous, or saucy girl. | | ADJECTIVE: | High-spirited; boisterous. | | ETYMOLOGY: | From earlier hoyden, a rude youth, probably from Dutch heiden, heathen, boor, from Middle Dutch. See kaito- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | hoyden·ish —ADJECTIVE
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