hoydenism

== English == === Etymology === From hoyden +‎ -ism. === Noun === hoydenism (countable and uncountable, plural hoydenisms) The behaviour of a hoyden. 1899, Mary A. Ward, Life and works of the sisters Brontë, Introduction to Jane Eyre And there can be no doubt that there was in Miss Bronte a curious vein of recklessness, roughness, one might also say - hoydenism - that exists side by side with an exquisite delicacy and a true dignity, and is none the less Irish and Celtic for that. === Anagrams === hymnodies