Tomgirl
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Tomgirl is a noun meaning A boy who behaves in a typically girlish manner.
Meaning
A boy who behaves in a typically girlish manner.
More Meanings
- Antonym of tomboy (“girl who behaves in a typically boyish manner”).
Example Sentences
Delia says, “If you play with girls, then you are a tomgirl!”
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."
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, […]
Word Forms
- tomgirls
Synonyms for tomgirl
Depending on context, synonyms include janegirl.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include tomboy, tomboyism, janegirl, girlboy, boy-girl, girlishness.
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