Definitions
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- noun The state or condition of being
tomboyish . - noun The behaviour of a
tomboy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun masculinity in women (especially in girls and young women)
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Examples
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The Heartbreak Kid - the tomboyishness is a lot like me.
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The Heartbreak Kid - the tomboyishness is a lot like me.
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The Heartbreak Kid - the tomboyishness is a lot like me.
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She should be Caucasian, between ages 15 and 20, who could portray someone "underfed but strong," and "naturally pretty underneath her tomboyishness."
The Newcomers John Jurgensen 2011
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Alice Dreger, on the Hasting Center blog, alerts us to Dr. Maria New, who's been giving the experimental medication dexamethasone (dex) to pregnant women concerned their child might have congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH, an adrenal condition that results sometimes in intersexuality in girls, rarely in death, sometimes in life-long medication, but has also been associated with tomboyishness and lesbianism) without informed consent.
Alex Blaze: The Sad Lengths Some Go to Avoid Having a Lesbian Daughter 2010
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But as Jo Ann grew up to become Jan (her tomboyishness would have made Joe not inaccurate), she learned to speak Spanish and visited Mexico, and found herself intrigued by a Yucatán place-name taken from a Mexican revolutionary hero, all the better that he was male: Quintana Roo.
'Roads to Quoz' 2008
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If Superheros like her could cry, then I could cry and it didn't take away from my tomboyishness or my strengths or any of my accomplishments.
SUPERGIRL Avalon's Willow 2006
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She appears to be a happy, healthy girl with no visible signs of tomboyishness, despite her XY karyotype.
Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002
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Breathless, she stumbled and fell into her father's arms, and both men had the same thought, one that made them smile upon her tomboyishness indulgently: "If this is twenty-one -- eighteen is three long years younger and less responsible!"
Sisters Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923
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Officially, then, he acquitted her of anything worse than tomboyishness.
Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Max Beerbohm 1914
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