Hoymen vs Hoyden - What's the difference?
hoymen | hoyden |
(archaic) A rude, uncultured or rowdy girl or woman.
* 1857 , , Volume the Second, page 147 (ISBN 1857150570)
* 1897 , Henry James, What Maisie Knew :
* 1985 , John Fowles, A Maggot :
* 1997 , Andrew Miller, Ingenious Pain :
Like a hoyden: high-spirited and boisterous; saucy, tomboyish.
*1796 , Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark ,
*:Many of the country girls I met appeared to me pretty--that is, to have fine complexions, sparkling eyes, and a kind of arch, hoyden playfulness which distinguishes the village coquette.
*1809 , Washington Irwing, Knickerbocker's History of New York ,
*:At these primitive tea parties the utmost propriety and dignity of deportment prevailed. No flirting nor coquetting--no gambling of old ladies, nor hoyden chattering and romping of young ones [..]
As nouns the difference between hoymen and hoyden
is that hoymen is while hoyden is (archaic) a rude, uncultured or rowdy girl or woman.As an adjective hoyden is
like a hoyden: high-spirited and boisterous; saucy, tomboyish.hoyden
English
Noun
(en noun)- She is a hoyden , one will say. At any rate she is not a lady, another will exclaim. I have suspected her all through, a third will declare; she has no idea of the dignity of a matron; or of the peculiar propriety which her position demands.
- her ladyship burst suddenly into the schoolroom to introduce Mr. Perriam, who, as she announced from the doorway to Maisie, wouldn't believe his ears that one had a great hoyden of a daughter.
- Not all ladies in my profession are as that shameless hoyden , Mrs Charke, that has brought such distress through her malicious conduct and ill repute upon her worthy father, Mr Cibber; far from it, sir.
- Tabitha is lighting the candles in the sconces. A great, strong, heavy girl, a hoyden , not pretty, her face distinguished only by youth, by health.