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Tomboy

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Tomboy meaning

A girl who behaves in a typically boyish manner. | A rude, boisterous boy. | An immodest or bold woman.

Example sentences (20)

Dannii rose to prominence on Australian soap Home and Away in the 90s as tomboy Emma Jackson, a fan favourite, before moving onto the music scene with her debut single Love and Kisses peaking at number eight in the UK.

In an ensemble led by Charito Solis and Bernardo Bernardo, among others, Gil stood out as “Kano,” a tomboy addict and small-time drug dealer who became a casualty of the martial law-era police by the movie’s end.

I used to play with my brothers, and obviously I was a bit of a tomboy.

When we think about strong female characters, we expect to see a tomboy who looks like a man and dresses like one all the time, but I wanted to be able to show a female character who is many things.

Hideko was the second-youngest, by her own account a tomboy and a loudmouth.

Meg's recasting prompted Fincher to substantially rewrite her character to better suit Foster's personality, aligning her closer to her tomboy daughter, making for an ultimately stronger mother-daughter bond and a more compelling film.

She sang about being stubborn, performed her first love song and described her granny’s love of Twiggy and her youth as a ‘tomboy’ to a growing crowd, who got involved by clapping and waving their arms, despite the early start.

Aisha Gombi, who was born and raised in Gombi, a town and local government area in the northern part of Adamawa State, got into hunting as a tomboy in the early years of her life, usually following her father and grandfather on hunting expeditions.

I was a tomboy, but the word should remain buried in the past, where it belongs.

Kate is more studious and a bit of a tomboy, and she has mostly male friends who she plays video games with.

The young actors playing the team members are all fantastic, too, particularly Tatum O’Neal as a pitcher who’s insecure about being a tomboy.

This cover image released by Mama Bird Recording Co. shows ""What's New, Tomboy" by Damien Jurado.

According to her, she is a tomboy who rolls with female friends who are equally not lesbians.

After spending years as a tomboy who was maligned for my masculinity as a woman, receiving praise for my masculinity at a ball was incredibly gratifying.

Celluloid is the new default multimedia program (replacing VLC and Xplayer), while the note-taking app Tomboy is replaced by the more modern Gnote.

I don't think the writer knows what a "tomboy" is.

It started with Tobia’s parents, both role models: their mother, who was a tomboy at heart; and their father, who ignored stereotypical women’s work and instead, pitched in around the house.

She falls for Aramis, who doesn't want anything to do with a tomboy, so that minor comic plot goes nowhere.

Truus was a real tomboy who had never worn make-up before, whereas Hannie always powdered her face right before an assignment in order to “die beautifully” in case she was captured by the Nazis.

A loud and proud intersectional feminist, Destiny Frasqueri often occupies multiple identities at once: Nokia’s of Afro-Puerto Rican descent, openly bi-sexual, a tomboy and a bombshell at the same time.