tomboy

Definitions


[ˈtɒmbɔɪ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a girl who enjoys activities or adopts an appearance more traditionally associated with boys
(e.g: I got called a tomboy because of the sports I was into or the way I dressed)


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 16th century (in sense ‘boisterous or self-assured youth’): from Tom, abbreviation of the male forename Thomas, used to denote an ordinary man + boy




definition by Oxford Dictionaries