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gamine
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French gamine.
Noun
gamine (plural gamines)
- A (usually female) street urchin; a homeless girl.
- A mischievous, playful, elfish, pert girl or young woman.
Translations
Adjective
gamine (comparative more gamine, superlative most gamine)
- (of a girl) Having a boyish, mischievous charm; tomboyish.
Translations
See also
- gamin
Anagrams
- Enigma, enigma, imagen, in-game
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a.min/
Noun
gamine f (plural gamines, masculine gamin)
- kid (child)
Further reading
- “gamine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- igname
Middle English
Verb
gamine
- (Early Middle English) Alternative form of gamen
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tomboy
English
Alternative forms
- tom boy
Etymology
First attested in Ralph Roister Doister (published 1567, written circa 1552), where it is used to describe a boisterous girl; the OED says the citation is however "generally taken" to mean a boisterous boy, and says that a use in The Old Law (published 1656, thought to have been written circa 1599) "certainly" means a boy: "must young court-tits / play tomboys' tricks with her?" By 1579 it was attested in the meaning "an immodest woman", and by no later than 1592 it had developed its modern meaning of a “girl who acts like a boy”; from tom +? boy.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?t?m.b??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?t?m.b??/
Noun
tomboy (plural tomboys)
- A girl who behaves in a typically boyish manner.
- Synonyms: hoyden, ladette, romp
- Antonym: (with regards to behaviour) girly girl
- Antonym: (with regards to gender) macho man
- Antonym: (with regards to gender and behaviour) femboy
- (Philippines, colloquial) A lesbian.
Translations
Descendants
- ? Cebuano: tomboy
- ? Tagalog: tomboy
See also
- tomgirl
Further reading
- tomboy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Cebuano
Etymology
Borrowed from English tomboy.
Noun
tomboy
- a girl who behaves in a typically boyish manner
- a lesbian
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:tomboy.
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from English tomboy.
Noun
tomboy
- (colloquial) a boyish girl
- 1973, Liwayway
- Si Trudy, gaya ng palayaw sa kanya, ay isang tomboy. Sa kanilang lugar, walang batang lalaking nakadaig sa kanya sa ano mang uri ng sports.
- Trudy, like her nickname, is a tomboy. In their neighborhood, the boys cannot even beat her in any sports.
- Si Trudy, gaya ng palayaw sa kanya, ay isang tomboy. Sa kanilang lugar, walang batang lalaking nakadaig sa kanya sa ano mang uri ng sports.
- 1968, Dionisio S. Salazar, Pitong dula
- Sa suot niyang " kamisadentrong panlalaki at "pedal-pusher" na maong ay wala siyang iniwan sa isang "tomboy". (Palinga-linga silang dalawa na tila may hinahanap. Pagtapat sa may puno ng adelpa ay titigil sila.)
- He did not leave the undershirt and "pedal-pusher" jeans to a tomboy (They are looking to the left and right like they are finding something. They will stop when they face the oleander tree.)
- Sa suot niyang " kamisadentrong panlalaki at "pedal-pusher" na maong ay wala siyang iniwan sa isang "tomboy". (Palinga-linga silang dalawa na tila may hinahanap. Pagtapat sa may puno ng adelpa ay titigil sila.)
- 1973, Liwayway
- (colloquial) a lesbian
Synonyms
- (a lesbian): tibo
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