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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Hoi'den, n.

noun

(hoi'dn), n. [O. Eng., also hoydon, hoyd, applied to youth of either sex; also an animal remarkable for the vivacity of its motions, probably a leveret; W. hoeden, flirt, wanton, perhaps originally a woodman, rustic, from W. hoed, coed, wood, or from hoedd, exposed, public, naked, or from hoetian, to dally, to dandle. Cf. also HOIT.]

  1. A rude, bold girl; a romp.
  2. A rude, bold man; a hobbledehoy. [Obs.] Milton.