tomboy

Whither pullest thou me now, thou paragon and tomboy? And now foolest thou me fleeing; thou sweet romp dost annoy!

Charley, the only son-- they had lost an older boy--was sixteen; Julia, who was known as the musical one, was fourteen when I was; and Sally, the tomboy with short hair, was a year younger.

"If Jo is a tomboy and Amy a goose, what am I, please?" asked Beth, ready to share the lecture.

For your highnesses must know that, going a few days back to kiss her hands and receive her benediction, approbation, and permission for this third sally, I found her altogether a different being from the one I sought; I found her enchanted and changed from a princess into a peasant, from fair to foul, from an angel into a devil, from fragrant to pestiferous, from refined to clownish, from a dignified lady into a jumping tomboy, and, in a word, from Dulcinea del Toboso into a coarse Sayago wench."

She had promised to pay for a quarter's music lessons for Diana, but now she is determined to do nothing at all for such a tomboy. Oh, I guess they had a lively time of it there this morning.

Several of them had been to Honolulu, and knew the instrument, confirming Mercedes' definition of ukulele as "jumping flea." Also, they knew Hawaiian songs she had learned from Mercedes, and soon, to her accompaniment, all were singing: "Aloha Oe," "Honolulu Tomboy," and "Sweet Lei Lehua." Saxon was genuinely shocked when some of them, even the more matronly, danced hulas on the sand.

She is what we call in England a tomboy, with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of traditions.

'At wala namang problema kung bading ka o tomboy ka basta hindi ka sakit ng lipunan (And there is no problem whether you are gay or tomboy, as long as you are not a liability to society).

News  in March 2018 that she thinks her daughter would be more of a tomboy.

A few of my favorites: Coady and the Creepies, a ghost story about an all-female punk band told in the form of a series of comic books; Be Your Own Backing Band, a collection of her comics from the punk magazine Razorcake; and Tomboy, a book about her early years as a rebellious tomboy.