;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.
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The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
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Practice makes perfect.....post on....
The links for the original site aren’t working. No loss though. Brr, had to scrape windshields and it’s in the high 30s. Booo, cold weather.
I KNEW you would post her for this word!
the mediaite link works for me?
Dependable - that’s me!
Now it is working. Weird. I tried all the links in the article before and they all failed. Internets...
algore falling down on his job! ; )
That is beautiful and haunting
AND that is a choice - not an awful disease like cancer
Scary, isn’t it?
LOL
Hillary in any form will have us gagging.
wonderful! it’s rhyme-a-licious! A++++ ; )
The hypocrisy of liberal women - claiming to be smart and in control of their lives but unable to handle simple birth control methods without Bid Daddy’s help
Bid Daddy sounds like an online shopping site.
It does, doesn’t it? lol The slogan could be, “For all the things you are too lazy or too stupid to provide for yourself”
eres bilingue ; )
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