tomboy
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- noun
- /ˈtɑmˌbɔɪ/
- Growing up, she was proud to be a tomboy, always joining the boys in their rough games.
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Watch on YouTubeThey were not tomboys, they were not masculine.
- They were not tomboys, they were not masculine.
- I did martial arts and I went surfing and I was a tomboy of all tomboys.
- from playing division two softball. Is she tomboy as well?
- Because she all she wants me to be is this little girl and I'm this tomboy.
- But who I was before I was, you know, motocross, Taekwondo, tomboy.
- OK, so we know we've grown up in classes where there was the tomboy girl and the slightly effeminate boy.
- My friends were also more on the tomboy side, more into sports and comedy.
- So if you're a tomboy, well, maybe you're an actual boy.
- So growing up, I was very typical classical sort of tomboy.
- So, you know, I bought these with like, let's see, but I already knew a Tom girl, tomboy, whatever.
- Over the course of just three albums, she went from tomboy skater punk punk pop punk to dark angst to pink Princess bubble gum pop.
- That is a tomboy, sexalicious, Butch vegan lesbian.
Examples
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The older one, Amy, was bossy, a tomboy, and quite a jock in grade school and high school.
Fiction book (1996) -
Carla Mae turned out to be a competitive little tomboy and a fair adversary.
Blog text (18) -
You know, I was a tomboy when I was growing up.
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My friends were also more on the tomboy side, more into sports and comedy.
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Do you find me too much of a tomboy?
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Boy, I was a little tomboy.
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Look, I was raised in a house with four brothers, a tomboy sister and a dad who bet on basketball games.
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By all accounts, though, Tory was something of a tomboy, which she remains to this day.
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I was the stereotypically gender-nonconforming kid, the tomboy who never grew out of it.
Blog text (28) -
I did martial arts and I went surfing and I was a tomboy of all tomboys.
Synonyms
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A lively, bold girl who likes rough play
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Etymology
Tomboy comes from an older use when Tom was a common name for a rough or noisy male and boy means 'boy', so it first meant a noisy or rough boy. Over time the meaning changed to a girl who acts like a boy, which is why today a tomboy is a girl who enjoys rough, energetic activities.