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tom·boy
tam boI
tomboyish (adj.), tomboyishly (adv.), tomboyishness (n.)
词根:tomboy
adj.tomboyish 顽皮的,放肆的(尤指女孩)
noun
a young girl who prefers to dress and act in ways considered to be more appropriate for a boy.She was considered quite a tomboy, as she loved to climb trees and ride go-carts.
1550年代,“粗鲁、狂暴的男孩”,源于 Tom 和 boy; 意为“狂野、嬉闹的女孩,像男孩一样活泼的女孩”首次记录于1590年代。它也可以意味着“妓女、大胆或不守妇道的女人”(1570年代)。比较 tomrig “粗鲁、狂野的女孩”。相关: Tomboyish。
The first known use of tomboy was in 1566
tomorrow1 of 2adverb
on or for the day after today
tomorrow2 of 2noun
the day after today
tomfoolerynoun
playful or foolish behavior
tomenoun
a big thick book
tomenoun
a big thick book
tomcatnoun
a male domestic cat
tombstonenoun
gravestone
tombnoun
grave entry 2 sense 1
a house or burial chamber for dead people
tomboynoun
a girl who enjoys things some people think are more suited to boys
tomboynoun
a girl who enjoys things some people think are more suited to boys
1 But I just knew I could do the moves the older kids did—I was already a fearless little tomboy.
2 This isn't to say that tomboys and other gender nonconforming kids are automatically kinder, or have it easy.
3 Their youngest daughter, Mary, Haaland’s mother, was a tomboy who kept score for the Winslow Redskins, a baseball team her father started.
4 Particularly, and with great hope, I had been planning events around the launch of my first nonfiction book in May, about the science, psychology, history, and future of tomboys and gender nonconformity.
5 The two aging men saw her through her loneliest and most difficult hours, through the malignant limbo of turning from a howling tomboy into a young woman.
6 Mother claims I have the manners of a wild animal myself, as I am a tomboy, but I never fail to be respectful of my father’s garden.
7 Subtly, unmistakably a beautiful lineage is suggested in these echoes of the great heroines of American literature — so many tomboys, so many queer women.
8 Annie Oakley underwent an “enormous morphing of herself from this rough-and-tumble tomboy” into a woman of breeding and the star of Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show, she said.
9 In fact, as a tomboy, I had every intention of following in her footsteps.
10 Girls who were marked as tomboys by researchers did better in math, while those who were traditionally feminine risked falling behind.
11 A child of the upper middle class, tomboy Emily Sparrow has always been a good girl until she gets to high school and meets Dylan.
12 I grew up a tomboy, and these things don’t really mix.
13 I was a tomboy and always thought I was pretty masculine.”
14 I have skin in this game, as the mother of a child who is labeled as gender nonconforming by others and who identifies as a girl, and a tomboy, herself.
15 The word that I saw over and over in studies of tomboys was "flexibility."
16 Tomboy is a girl and behaves like a boy.
一个行为举止像男孩的女孩子.
17 These were the people I related to: a halfling and a tomboy.
18 She was always a bit of a tomboy, and, though shy, she was unafraid to stand up for herself.
19 Father still didn’t, as he thought nothing of leaving it in the charge of a cripple, a beauty queen, and a tomboy who approaches housework like a cat taking a bath.
20 Scarlett O'Hara – no tomboy, but a woman who will stop at nothing to get what she wants – ends up without Rhett Butler.