tomgirl

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A boy who behaves in a typically girlish manner.
    — This tactic didn't work, so several weeks later, in a variation on a theme, I reported to two girls on the playground "I'm a tomgirl," calculating that if tomboys exist, tomgirls must also, and I must be one. That didn't work either, […]
  2. Synonym of tomboy (“girl who behaves in a typically boyish manner”).
    — 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.

词形变化

tomgirls plural

词源

From tom + girl. The “girlish boy” sense was formed as an antonym of tomboy; the “boyish girl” sense is an alteration of tomboy to reinforce that the referent is a girl.
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