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• s  used of girls; wild and boisterous

• A policeman talks to a policewoman in a teasing kind of banter, as if the female cop were a tomboyish kid sister.
• Unlike tomboyish girls, a few of whom Green has also studied, "sissy" boys are quickly marked out for social rejection.
• Although the other kids didn't know about Joan's surgical history, they teased her about her tomboyish looks and behavior.

• hoydenish

News & Articles

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• 'Battlestar Galactica' actress Katee Sackhoff loses Twitter star power for upholding gun rights
  Katee Sackhoff, the Hollywood actress known for her tomboyish, gun-toting star roles in hard-charging action flicks and TV shows — including one as mercurial but talented pilot Kara "Starbuck" Thrace on the television series "Battlestar Galactica" — has taken a Twitter hit for her pro-gun messages. She tweeted on Monday: ...
  June 10, 2013 - The Washington Times

Quotes

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• Vera Wang in RTE.ie
  Keira Knightly is at number nine, with designer Vera Wang saying: "What makes her so attractive and appealing is the tomboyish aspect to her. To be so beautiful and yet so unaware of it I find incredibly modern."
• Gurinder Chadha in Bexhill Observer
  Gurinder told the Daily Mail this week, "It's basically a coming of age story. At the beginning, Georgia's a tomboyish girl - at the end she's a young woman. Paramount sent me Angus, Thongs And Full-frontal Snogging, and they'd spent five years...
• Amrita Rao in Sify
  Talking about her 'much-talked-about' new look in the film, Amrita said, "In the film I play a character called Sanjana who is a tomboyish college student. Hence the bohemian look to go with the character who wants to be a pop artiste and hence...