tomgirl

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A boy who behaves in a typically girlish manner.

   • 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!”
2. 2

   Antonym of tomboy (“girl who behaves in a typically boyish manner”).

   • 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, […]

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