Thursday, August 16, 2007

Other Hoydens

Joe gets extra special bonus points for finding the word hoyden in another place besides this blog. From George MacDonald Fraser's Flash for Freedom!:

"I had champagne with it, too, and a very passable brandy, and finally topped the whole thing off with a buxom little cracker girl in my cabin. Her name was Penny or Jenny, I forget which; she had dyed gold hair whch went vilely with her yellow satin dress, and she was one of your squealing hoydens, but she had tremendous energy and high pointed breasts of which she was extremely proud, which made up for a great deal."

Obviously Penny or Jenny had never read any of the previous Flashman books or else she would have known about his lowdown dog ways and stayed the hell out of that cabin.

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