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  • adjective Displaying behavior associated with a tomboy.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective used of girls; wild and boisterous

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Examples

  • I used to be this so called tomboyish little thing.

    yanxious Diary Entry yanxious 2006

  • Like she has a really weird sense of humor, and as much as she counts her sense of worth by feeling attractive, she glorifies by being kind of tomboyish at times.

    Exclusive Interview: QUARTERLIFE Star Maite Schwartz | the TV addict 2008

  • Anders will play Perry's "tomboyish" love interest in the comedy, about a 40-year-old man having a mid-life crisis.

    Inside TV Blog Andrew Scott 2010

  • Anders will play Perry's "tomboyish" love interest in the comedy, about a 40-year-old man having a mid-life crisis.

    Inside TV Blog 2010

  • Anders will play Perry's "tomboyish" love interest in the comedy, about a 40-year-old man having a mid-life crisis.

    Inside TV Blog 2010

  • Anders will play Perry's "tomboyish" love interest in the comedy, about a 40-year-old man having a mid-life crisis.

    Inside TV Blog Andrew Scott 2010

  • I've been reading posts from women who say they always felt kind of tomboyish .... but what about girls who weren't girly girls but wanted to be or tried to be with varying levels of sucess or just girls who like to dress nice but still have the problems with eye contact, conversations, immaturity etc?

    Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums 2008

  • I guess what I'm asking is are women with Asperger's automatically more "tomboyish" or "asexual" as I've heard some people say? sister is classic hf aspie and she is like that a lot, she even used to avoid computer games because mostly boys played them at the time though she grew out of that.

    Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums 2008

  • "So probably a combination of my sisters, because Samantha’s a little more kind of tomboyish, and Charlotte’s really girly, so I’m a little bit of both," she says.

    Ten Things We Learned About the 'Other' Ronson 2008

  • "So probably a combination of my sisters, because Samantha’s a little more kind of tomboyish, and Charlotte’s really girly, so I’m a little bit of both," she says.

    Ten Things We Learned About the 'Other' Ronson 2008

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