hoydenish

1. 1.

   used of girls; wild and boisterous

   Synonymstomboyish

   Similarunwomanly

Questions about hoydenish

What does hoydenish mean?

hoydenish means "used of girls; wild and boisterous".

How many syllables are in hoydenish?

hoydenish has 3 syllables: hoy-de-nish. The stress falls on "hoy".

What is another word for hoydenish?

Close synonyms include tomboyish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hoydenish a common word?

hoydenish is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.