Hoyden

( Mi ), a lively, ignorant, romping country girl.—Vanbrugh, The Relapse (1697). Hoyden ( Mi ), daughter of Sir Tunbelly Clumsy, a green, ill-educated, country girl, living near Scar borough. She is promised in marriage to Lord Fopping ton, but as his lordship is not personally known, either by the knight or his daughter, Tom Fashion, the nobleman’s younger brother, pa es himself off as Lord Fopping ton, is admitted into the family, and marries the heire .—Sheridan, A Trip to Scar borough (1777). ⁂ Sheridan’s comedy is The Relapse of Vanbrugh (1697), abridged, recast, and somewhat modernized.