hoyden

a term used to describe a rambunctious, boisterous, saucy, and carefree girl.

"...Judith gone even further than that:--into that transition stage between childhood and womanhood where she was even more inaccessible to the grandfather of whom she had seen but little during their life and probably cared less anyway--that state where, though still visible, young girls appear as though seen through glass and where even the voice cannot reach them; where they exist (this the hoyden who could--and did--outrun and outclimb, and ride and fight both with and beside her brother) in a pearly lambence without shadows and themselves partaking of it; in nebulous suspension held, strange and unpredictable, even their very shapes fluid and delicate and without substance; not in themselves floating and seeking but merely waiting, parasitic and potent and serene, drawing to themselves without effort the post-genititve upon and about which to space, flow into back breast; bosom, flank, thigh." (AA 51-52).

[Erica Rallo]