Crossword-Solution: HOYDENISH
We have 2 clues for the answer “HOYDENISH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Boisterously unladylike. | 1 answer |
| Like a tomboy | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings,
whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by
a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the
body.
Hint 2 anagram
MOIETNO
Hint 3 another clue
A FEELING OF GREAT ELATION
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Sentences with HOYDENISH (5)
She wondered if the hoydenish blood of some lawless ancestor, long asleep, were calling out in her tonight, some drop of a hotter fluid that the centuries had failed to cool, and why, if this curse were in her, it had not spoken before.
This brought the two into conversation; when Jean, with a somewhat hoydenish advance, inquired if “he had yet got any of the lasses to like him as well as his dog?” It is one of the misfortunes of the professional Don Juan that his honour forbids him to refuse battle; he is in life like the Roman soldier upon duty, or like the sworn physician who must attend on all diseases.
Seeing Fitzpiers standing there, she said, with playful effrontery, “May’st kiss me if ‘canst catch me, Tim!” Fitzpiers recognized her as Suke Damson, a hoydenish damsel of the hamlet, who was plainly mistaking him for her lover.
What a capital name Veronica Trollope would be for a hoydenish young woman in a society novel! I fancy that all foreign names are odd to the alien.
Self-willed and thoughtless--even rude and hoydenish--we may think her in these days of gentler manners and more guarded speech.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1952–1974).