hoydenish
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "...the money Lady Penryhn produced was as little as her services were great; she therefore, (guaranteed by a look from her grace) in a kind of mock-hoydenish manner, seized all the purses, emptied them into the auctioneer's hat, and declared that, as every one present had done their best, all were equal benefactors to the charity;..."
- "To his left sat two Hindu students. At his right there was Professor Hagen’s daughter, a hoydenish Drama major."
Etymology
Etymology tree English hoyden Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -isch English -ish English hoydenish From hoyden + -ish.
Inflected Forms
more hoydenish (comparative)
most hoydenish (superlative)