Meaning of tomgirl | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A boy who behaves in a typically girlish manner.
2. Synonym of tomboy (“girl who behaves in a typically boyish manner”).

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Examples

“This tactic didn't work⟳, so several weeks later, in a variation on a theme, I reported to two girls on the playground "I'm a tomgirl," calculating that if tomboys exist⟳, tomgirls must also, and I must be one. That didn't work⟳ either, […]”

“Delia says, “If you play⟳ with girls, then you are a tomgirl!””

“Homosexual stirrings in children before puberty are very difficult to evaluate⟳; most small boys with signs of effeminacy probably do not become⟳ homosexuals as adults and most tomgirls become⟳ heterosexual.”

“To anybody else it's pretty silly: love⟳. Why should I feel⟳ a loss? How am I bereft? She was never mine; she was a fiction, always a golden tomgirl, barefoot, with an adolescent's slouch and a boy's taste⟳ for sports and fishing, […]”

“What Babe made me feel⟳ was something different. My secret Montana tomgirl heart burst⟳ with pride that this Texas tomgirl could hit that silly little ball farther than Snead could. Even the comments by some people in town that Babe was "kinda weird" (another code word for lesbian) didn't […]”

“But she still wears her sweatpants in size XXXL, and hasn't lost that tomgirl touch⟳. "A stylist kept trying to tell⟳ me to wear⟳ heels," she says. "You're not gonna be sliding and gliding in no heels."”

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