'hellion' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is most commonly used to refer to a mischievous or unruly person, especially a child or young person. Example: The neighborhood kids were known for their wild and rowdy behavior, often causing chaos and mischief wherever they went. They were a group of hellions, always getting into trouble and causing headaches for their parents and neighbors.
Kippenberger amplified his impulses as a hopscotching hellion, in work that included a torrent of images of his beer-bellied self, and Oehlen honed his focus on the problems of painting.
It isn't the fault of the stylish photography, or the cast of virtuosos, including Catherine Allégret (a ringer for her late mother, Simone Signoret), as Piaf's paternal grandmother, or Gérard Depardieu, as Louis Leplée — the Teddy-bearish homosexual who owned Gerny's, a voguish cabaret, and who discovered Piaf as a rachitic nineteen-year-old hellion singing on a street corner.
Lee became a promiscuous hellion; her older brother, John, was a cross-dresser; Florence attempted suicide; Theodore continued taking nude pictures of his daughter, often with a stereoscopic camera, well into her twenties.
The new chief designer at Givenchy was a chubby hellion of twenty-seven, with a buzz cut and a baby face, who once boasted, "When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen".
I was a narcissistic teen-ager, and I said, 'Oh my God, why are we having to walk over to the Capitol, Daddy?' and he said, 'Darling, because of this great day, the Congress of the United States will never look the same again.' " Young Tad Lincoln, a hellion remembered for kicking balls into mirrors, enjoyed reviewing troop movements with his father.
In gruelling pain for decades after the accident, forced to walk with braces and canes, he nonetheless had the humor to give his lame legs names: the left he christened Josephine, the right Geraldine, "a hellion, a bitch, a psychopath".
It was actually named for Sergeant Alvin C. York, a hellion-turned-pacifist-turned-doughboy from Pall Mall, Tennessee who, on October 8, 1918, having already lost most of the men in his platoon, managed almost single-handedly to kill twenty-eight German soldiers and capture a hundred and thirty-two more.
"But, like, they're a line of hellions, the lads out your way, in't they?" "Lads are clowns," Pell said, and sighed.
For the first time in his short life, Louis had real friends, all sorts travelling alongside him into the glade — calm men, family men, bachelors, ex-preachers, hellions, white men, black men, the children of Indians and freed slaves.
From "The Sopranos" to "House," men marked the last 10 years of television less as hellions or healers than as analysands — fragile bullies who recognized they were damaged and sought help.
You also have an excellent reason to turn these hammy hellions into dinner.
