different between hoiden vs holden

English

Noun

hoiden (plural hoidens)

1. Alternative form of hoyden

Adjective

hoiden (comparative more hoiden, superlative most hoiden)

1. Alternative form of hoyden

Verb

hoiden (third-person singular simple present hoidens, present participle hoidening, simple past and past participle hoidened)

1. To romp rudely or indecently.
   • January 1710, Jonathan Swift, Tatler Number 5

     get a scratch, but we always discovered upon examining, that they had been hoidening with the young apprentices.

Anagrams

• honied

Finnish

Noun

hoiden

1. Genitive plural form of hoo.

Anagrams

• ehdoin

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??ld?n

Verb

holden

1. (archaic) past participle of hold
   • Holland

     Asses' milk is holden for to be thickest, and therefore they use it instead of renning, to turn milk.

Anagrams

• held on, hondel

Danish

Etymology

From Old Danish haldæn, from Old Norse haldinn, = the past participle of halda (“to hold”). Compare German gehalten.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?h?l?n]

Adjective

holden (neuter holdent, plural and definite singular attributive holdne)

1. well-to-do, prosperous

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?ld?n

Verb

holden

1. plural past indicative and subjunctive of hollen

Dutch Low Saxon

Verb

holden

1. to hold

German

Adjective

holden

1. inflection of hold:
   1. strong genitive masculine/neuter singular
   2. weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
   3. strong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
   4. strong dative plural
   5. weak/mixed all-case plural

Middle English

Alternative forms

• halden, halde

Etymology

From Old English healdan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h??ld?n/

Verb

holden

1. to hold
2. to consider

Conjugation

Descendants

• English: hold
  • Northumbrian: hauld, haad
• Scots: hald, hauld, haud, had
• Yola: houle

References

• “h?lden, v.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.