Middlemarch vocabulary

Miss Matilda, a strapping hoyden of about fourteen, with a short frock and trousers, shrugged her shoulders and made a slight grimace, but took a candle and proceeded before me up the back stairs (a long, steep, double flight), and through a long, narrow passage, to a small but tolerably comfortable room.

Anne Brontë. Agnes Grey (1847)

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I have not yet entered thoroughly into the spirit of the place: indeed I am still such a country hoyden, that I could hardly find patience to be put in a condition to appear, yet, as I was not above six hours under the hands of the hair-dresser, who stuffed my head with as much black wool as would have made a quilted petticoat;

Tobias Smollett. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)

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Mrs. Glass was (from an undeniably hoyden point of view) a rather refreshing eyesore.

J.D. Salinger. Franny and Zooey, p.74 (1955)