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tomboy

/tom-boi/US // ˈtɒmˌbɔɪ //UK // (ˈtɒmˌbɔɪ) //

假小子,假人,男人婆,假面人

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an energetic, sometimes boisterous girl whose behavior and pursuits, especially in games and sports, are considered more typical of boys than of girls.

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Examples

  • There are many others getting their footing, like Androgyny and Original Tomboy, all manly duds for anyone.

  • Or, in their words, the “independent tomboy improviser girl.”

  • Harding played the role of tomboy athlete, which was not a traditional female figure skating archetype.

  • But the traditional ice skating establishment was immune to her tomboy charms.

  • Somehow, the tomboy from Love & Basketball and the rest of the cast had to be convinced to return.

  • It was no longer the laughing tomboy of the bobbed hair and short skirts, but a woman whose eyes were on a level with mine.

  • I suppose I always seemed pretty young to him and a kind of tomboy.

  • She had been a sad romp in her day, and every prank of her tomboy girlhood stood her in good stead now.

  • She had been haunted by the awful consciousness that she was a 'Tomboy.'

  • I would do all he did, and I must have been a famous tomboy.