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As nouns the difference between taxonomy and hoyden

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification 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.

taxonomy

Noun

(taxonomies)
  • The science or the technique used to make a classification.
  • A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
  • (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
  • Synonyms

    * alpha taxonomy

    Derived terms

    * folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomy

    See also

    * classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontology

    hoyden

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A rude, uncultured or rowdy girl or woman.
  • * 1857 , , Volume the Second, page 147 (ISBN 1857150570)
  • 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.
  • * 1897 , Henry James, What Maisie Knew :
  • 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.
  • * 1985 , John Fowles, A Maggot :
  • 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.
  • * 1997 , Andrew Miller, Ingenious Pain :
  • 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.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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 [..]
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