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Tomboy   /tˈɑmbˌɔɪ/   Listen
Tomboy

noun
1.
A girl who behaves in a boyish manner.  Synonyms: hoyden, romp.






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"Tomboy" Quotes from Famous Books



... care; and it did seem a little hard in the opinion of the harassed Frenchwoman that her one sound charge could not be trusted to conduct herself with circumspection during her days of enforced solitude. Chris Wyndham, however, had been a tomboy all her life, and she could scarcely be expected to reform at such a juncture. She was not accustomed to solitude, and her restless ...
— The Rocks of Valpre • Ethel May Dell

... tell about me," began Grace. "I was the tomboy of Oakdale. I loved to climb trees and play baseball and marbles. I was thin as a lath and like live wire. My face was rather thin, too, and I remember I cried a whole afternoon because a little girl at school called ...
— Grace Harlowe's Second Year at Overton College • Jessie Graham Flower

... up. They got me over to Josie's last night to ask me to help. It's a big programme. And I wanted to warn you in advance. You've got to stop all your capers; no more camps on Sugar Creek, no more tomboy foolishness; no more general nonsense. You've got to be a civilized woman, and conduct yourself according to the rules in such cases ...
— Otherwise Phyllis • Meredith Nicholson

... about me," began Grace. "I was the tomboy of Oakdale. I loved to climb trees and play baseball and marbles. I was thin as a lath and like live wire. My face was rather thin, too, and I remember I cried a whole afternoon because a little girl at school called ...
— Grace Harlowe's Second Year at Overton College • Jessie Graham Flower

... undisciplined girl, called a tomboy in those days, whose farmer forbears had given to her a pagan passion for the soil and the open sky. Although brought up with a rigid training in theology, religion had never meant more to her than a certainty of hell as a punishment for misdeeds which neither she nor any of ...
— Hillsboro People • Dorothy Canfield



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