Their range, between the extremes of the demure and the hoydenish, is greater.
2
Her principal charm was a laughing, hoydenish countenance and roguish eyes.
3
His manners were hoydenish, but there was nothing of the clown about him.
4
Other riders of her sex might be rough, hoydenish, or masculine.
5
It was a hoydenish trick, but Kitty had enacted it for Lord Monckton's benefit.
Uso de tomboyish en inglés
1
You ought to be ashamed to always encourage her in her tomboyish ways, Julius.
2
As a child she had been untamed and tomboyish, a noisy, messy, natural force.
3
Late in the afternoon, when she had just been particularly tomboyish, he said to Neil:
4
It looked tomboyish, she said, though she thought you two were very good for boys.
5
She was a thin girl and rather pretty, and nice in a tomboyish sort of way.
6
Star really loves Rihanna and the tomboyish ways.
7
He took her square tomboyish hand in his.
8
There was nothing remotely tomboyish about me either.
9
Mary was studious, neat, and religious; Matilda was tomboyish, impatient of restraint, and fond of unedifying associates.
10
Mikell, tall, straw-haired, and tomboyish: must take after her father, since Mrs. Lunsford was dark, tiny, and demure.
11
She was not a pretty girl, but was a tremendously healthy one-strong, well developed, and tomboyish in her activities.
12
So when Will brought Emily home-anactual girl, and pretty in a tomboyish sort of way-allI felt was relief.
13
Holly and Jessica were two versions of the perfect middle England everychild, one tomboyish, smart and dark-haired, the other quieter and fair.
14
During this brief antiphonal exchange with her flock, Mother Malloy acknowledged each girl's essence-LoraJean Cramer's stolid complacency, Mikell Lunsford's tomboyish inattention.
15
She was a "completely tomboyish child", but as a teenager discovered she "could enjoy femininity, makeup and clothes, the whole thing.
16
Bethany, a short, tomboyish girl with a pair of deep dimples, was just as poor a match for me on paper as Aimee.