Definitions
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- noun A
boy who behaves in a typicallygirlish manner. - noun A
tomboy , a girl who behaves in a typically boyish manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Even when she was playing tomgirl, as now, she always seemed more girl than torn.
Calder Born, Calder Bred Janet Dailey 1983
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Even when she was playing tomgirl, as now, she always seemed more girl than torn.
Calder Born, Calder Bred Janet Dailey 1983
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The secondary cast, including Gerard Butler (as Hiccup's dad, Stoick) and America Ferrera (as tomgirl Astrid, whom Hiccup wins over), acquit themselves admirably.
The Harvard Crimson | All Articles Yair Rosenberg 2010
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The secondary cast, including Gerard Butler (as Hiccup's dad, Stoick) and America Ferrera (as tomgirl Astrid, whom Hiccup wins over), acquit themselves admirably.
The Harvard Crimson | All Articles Yair Rosenberg 2010
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Sam Ronson-free, but definitely not liking it, Lindsay Lohan actually blames her dad Michael Lohan for triggering her breakup with Samantha Ronson with those endless headline-making cracks about his daughter's boy-oh-boy great love affair with the British tomgirl, and now she's insisting Michael should build a bridge over troubled waters by making a fromal apology to Ronson.
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Sam Ronson-free, but definitely not liking it, Lindsay Lohan actually blames her dad Michael Lohan for triggering her breakup with Samantha Ronson with those endless headline-making cracks about his daughter's boy-oh-boy great love affair with the British tomgirl, and now she's insisting Michael should build a bridge over troubled waters by making a fromal apology to Ronson.
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