"hoyden" meaning in English

See hoyden in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈhɔɪdən/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-hoyden.wav [Southern-England] Forms: more hoyden [comparative], most hoyden [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɔɪdən Etymology: Probably from Middle Dutch heyden (“heathen, gypsy”), heidin (Modern Dutch heiden). Etymology templates: {{der|en|dum|heyden||heathen, gypsy}} Middle Dutch heyden (“heathen, gypsy”), {{m|dum|heidin}} heidin, {{cog|nl|heiden}} Dutch heiden Head templates: {{en-adj}} hoyden (comparative more hoyden, superlative most hoyden)
  1. Like a hoyden: high-spirited and boisterous; saucy, tomboyish.
    Sense id: en-hoyden-en-adj-xlTIFd8y Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 36 30 34

Noun

IPA: /ˈhɔɪdən/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-hoyden.wav [Southern-England] Forms: hoydens [plural]
Rhymes: -ɔɪdən Etymology: Probably from Middle Dutch heyden (“heathen, gypsy”), heidin (Modern Dutch heiden). Etymology templates: {{der|en|dum|heyden||heathen, gypsy}} Middle Dutch heyden (“heathen, gypsy”), {{m|dum|heidin}} heidin, {{cog|nl|heiden}} Dutch heiden Head templates: {{en-noun}} hoyden (plural hoydens)
  1. (archaic) A rude, uncultured or rowdy girl or woman. Tags: archaic
    Sense id: en-hoyden-en-noun-GkXNbDw0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 36 30 34

Verb

IPA: /ˈhɔɪdən/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-hoyden.wav [Southern-England] Forms: hoydens [present, singular, third-person], hoydening [participle, present], hoydened [participle, past], hoydened [past]
Rhymes: -ɔɪdən Etymology: Probably from Middle Dutch heyden (“heathen, gypsy”), heidin (Modern Dutch heiden). Etymology templates: {{der|en|dum|heyden||heathen, gypsy}} Middle Dutch heyden (“heathen, gypsy”), {{m|dum|heidin}} heidin, {{cog|nl|heiden}} Dutch heiden Head templates: {{en-verb}} hoyden (third-person singular simple present hoydens, present participle hoydening, simple past and past participle hoydened)
  1. (intransitive) To behave in a hoydenish manner. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-hoyden-en-verb-IycqGZjX Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 36 30 34

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for hoyden meaning in English (6.8kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "dum",
        "3": "heyden",
        "4": "",
        "5": "heathen, gypsy"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Dutch heyden (“heathen, gypsy”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "dum",
        "2": "heidin"
      },
      "expansion": "heidin",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "heiden"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch heiden",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Probably from Middle Dutch heyden (“heathen, gypsy”), heidin (Modern Dutch heiden).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hoydens",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "hoyden (plural hoydens)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "36 30 34",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers: In Three Volumes, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, OCLC 911659634; republished [London]: D. Campbell Publishers, 1992 (Everyman's Library; 57), ISBN 978-1-85715-057-5, volume II, page 147",
          "text": "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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1985, John Fowles, A Maggot",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Andrew Miller, Ingenious Pain",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A rude, uncultured or rowdy girl or woman."
      ],
      "id": "en-hoyden-en-noun-GkXNbDw0",
      "links": [
        [
          "rude",
          "rude"
        ],
        [
          "uncultured",
          "uncultured"
        ],
        [
          "rowdy",
          "rowdy"
        ],
        [
          "girl",
          "girl"
        ],
        [
          "woman",
          "woman"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) A rude, uncultured or rowdy girl or woman."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhɔɪdən/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔɪdən"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-hoyden.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/89/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hoyden.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hoyden.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/89/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hoyden.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hoyden.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hoyden"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "dum",
        "3": "heyden",
        "4": "",
        "5": "heathen, gypsy"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Dutch heyden (“heathen, gypsy”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "dum",
        "2": "heidin"
      },
      "expansion": "heidin",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "heiden"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch heiden",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Probably from Middle Dutch heyden (“heathen, gypsy”), heidin (Modern Dutch heiden).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more hoyden",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most hoyden",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "hoyden (comparative more hoyden, superlative most hoyden)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "36 30 34",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1796, Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, letter 22",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1809, Washington Irving, “chapter 3”, in Knickerbocker's History of New York",
          "text": "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 […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Like a hoyden: high-spirited and boisterous; saucy, tomboyish."
      ],
      "id": "en-hoyden-en-adj-xlTIFd8y",
      "links": [
        [
          "high-spirited",
          "high-spirited"
        ],
        [
          "boisterous",
          "boisterous"
        ],
        [
          "saucy",
          "saucy"
        ],
        [
          "tomboyish",
          "tomboyish"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhɔɪdən/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔɪdən"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-hoyden.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/89/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hoyden.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hoyden.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/89/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hoyden.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hoyden.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hoyden"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "dum",
        "3": "heyden",
        "4": "",
        "5": "heathen, gypsy"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Dutch heyden (“heathen, gypsy”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "dum",
        "2": "heidin"
      },
      "expansion": "heidin",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "heiden"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch heiden",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Probably from Middle Dutch heyden (“heathen, gypsy”), heidin (Modern Dutch heiden).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hoydens",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hoydening",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hoydened",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hoydened",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "hoyden (third-person singular simple present hoydens, present participle hoydening, simple past and past participle hoydened)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "36 30 34",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To behave in a hoydenish manner."
      ],
      "id": "en-hoyden-en-verb-IycqGZjX",
      "links": [
        [
          "hoydenish",
          "hoydenish"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To behave in a hoydenish manner."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhɔɪdən/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔɪdən"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-hoyden.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/89/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hoyden.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hoyden.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/89/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hoyden.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hoyden.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hoyden"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Middle Dutch",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs",
    "Rhymes:English/ɔɪdən",
    "Rhymes:English/ɔɪdən/2 syllables"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "dum",
        "3": "heyden",
        "4": "",
        "5": "heathen, gypsy"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Dutch heyden (“heathen, gypsy”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "dum",
        "2": "heidin"
      },
      "expansion": "heidin",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "heiden"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch heiden",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Probably from Middle Dutch heyden (“heathen, gypsy”), heidin (Modern Dutch heiden).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hoydens",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "hoyden (plural hoydens)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers: In Three Volumes, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, OCLC 911659634; republished [London]: D. Campbell Publishers, 1992 (Everyman's Library; 57), ISBN 978-1-85715-057-5, volume II, page 147",
          "text": "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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1985, John Fowles, A Maggot",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Andrew Miller, Ingenious Pain",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A rude, uncultured or rowdy girl or woman."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rude",
          "rude"
        ],
        [
          "uncultured",
          "uncultured"
        ],
        [
          "rowdy",
          "rowdy"
        ],
        [
          "girl",
          "girl"
        ],
        [
          "woman",
          "woman"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) A rude, uncultured or rowdy girl or woman."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhɔɪdən/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔɪdən"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-hoyden.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/89/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hoyden.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hoyden.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/89/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hoyden.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hoyden.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hoyden"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Middle Dutch",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs",
    "Rhymes:English/ɔɪdən",
    "Rhymes:English/ɔɪdən/2 syllables"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "dum",
        "3": "heyden",
        "4": "",
        "5": "heathen, gypsy"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Dutch heyden (“heathen, gypsy”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "dum",
        "2": "heidin"
      },
      "expansion": "heidin",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "heiden"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch heiden",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Probably from Middle Dutch heyden (“heathen, gypsy”), heidin (Modern Dutch heiden).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more hoyden",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most hoyden",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "hoyden (comparative more hoyden, superlative most hoyden)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1796, Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, letter 22",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1809, Washington Irving, “chapter 3”, in Knickerbocker's History of New York",
          "text": "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 […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Like a hoyden: high-spirited and boisterous; saucy, tomboyish."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "high-spirited",
          "high-spirited"
        ],
        [
          "boisterous",
          "boisterous"
        ],
        [
          "saucy",
          "saucy"
        ],
        [
          "tomboyish",
          "tomboyish"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhɔɪdən/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔɪdən"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-hoyden.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/89/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hoyden.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hoyden.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/89/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hoyden.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hoyden.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hoyden"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Middle Dutch",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs",
    "Rhymes:English/ɔɪdən",
    "Rhymes:English/ɔɪdən/2 syllables"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "dum",
        "3": "heyden",
        "4": "",
        "5": "heathen, gypsy"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Dutch heyden (“heathen, gypsy”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "dum",
        "2": "heidin"
      },
      "expansion": "heidin",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "heiden"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch heiden",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Probably from Middle Dutch heyden (“heathen, gypsy”), heidin (Modern Dutch heiden).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hoydens",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hoydening",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hoydened",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hoydened",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "hoyden (third-person singular simple present hoydens, present participle hoydening, simple past and past participle hoydened)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To behave in a hoydenish manner."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hoydenish",
          "hoydenish"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To behave in a hoydenish manner."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhɔɪdən/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔɪdən"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-hoyden.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/89/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hoyden.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hoyden.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/89/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hoyden.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hoyden.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hoyden"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.