;Posted on 11/10/2014 5:18:17 AM PST by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday, 11/10/14
;In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
hoyden; noun
1.
a boisterous, bold, and carefree girl; a tomboy. adjective:
1.
boisterous; rude. Also, hoiden .
Etymology:
At seven Juliet was an elfish creature… A hoyden who cuffed her duller witted brothers impartially and cursed her parents with shocking fluency.
-- William Faulkner, "Adolescence," Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner , edited by Joseph Blotner, 1979
Miss Matilda, a strapping hoyden of about fourteen, with a short frock and trousers, shrugged her shoulders and made a slight grimace, but took a candle and proceeded before me, up the back stairs…
-- Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey , 1847
Origin:
Hoyden is of uncertain origin, though etymologists suggest it may be linked to the Dutch term heiden meaning "heathen." It entered English in the late 1500s.
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
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Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Here is my example with WFTD.
Not nearly as bad as "turnip for what?", our hoyden of a First Lady keeps it classy. not.
No pushing at the door please!
Class is in session.
Morning.
have you rested up from your travels?
;^)
In 2012, the hoyden dems booed God,
While giving Obama another nod.
2014 sees the dems lose
Leaving us to muse
That God is not one you should prod.
I am getting there. We drove back in one day, then I had to get up early the next day and head out to a funeral.
How cool.
she was a loser from the get-go! A+++ hoyden or no hoyden~!
“Hoyden” - the response to another sailor’s
“Hoydere!”
A+++ still waiting for His vengeance to be unleashed in full.
everywhere you went there boxes for donations to the Poppy Project, and nearly everyone had on a poppy. There was also artistic, beautiful poppy jewelry that I saw people wearing, but wasn’t able to determine where they got those,
hoydy do to you too ; ) A+++
Sounds like national pride is high, unlike here.
Hanoi Jane Fonda Hoyden.
Hillary, harridan hoyden
A girl who should be a boy, then
If she becomes prezzy
We won’t have a lezzie
To crush all our unbridled “joy” then
HA! perfect! hoyden does make me think of harridan!
Did somebody say "Hayden?"
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