Definitions

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  • noun A boy who behaves in a typically girlish manner.
  • noun A tomboy, a girl who behaves in a typically boyish manner.

Etymologies

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tom +‎ girl. The "girlish boy" sense was formed as an antonym of tomboy; the "boyish girl" sense is perhaps an alteration of "tomboy" to reinforce that the referent is a girl.

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Examples

  • Even when she was playing tomgirl, as now, she always seemed more girl than torn.

    Calder Born, Calder Bred Janet Dailey 1983

  • Even when she was playing tomgirl, as now, she always seemed more girl than torn.

    Calder Born, Calder Bred Janet Dailey 1983

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    TheSpoof.com : Spoof News : Front Page 2009

  • 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.

    TheSpoof.com : Spoof News : Front Page 2009

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