tomboyn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈtɒmbɔɪ/, U.S.

/ˈtɑmˌbɔɪ/

Forms: 1500s–1600s tomboye, 1500s– tomboy.

Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Tom , boy n.¹

Etymology: < the male forename Tom (see Tom n.¹) + boy n.¹

A. n.

†1. A brash, boisterous, or self-assured youth. Obsolete.The sense in quot. a1556 is uncertain, but the context supports this interpretation.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > child > boy > [noun]

knightc893

knapec1000

knaveOE

knape childc1175

knave-childa1225

groom?c1225

knight-bairnc1275

pagec1300

mana1382

swainc1386

knave-bairna1400

little mana1425

man-childa1438

boy1440

little boya1475

lad1535

boykin1540

tomboya1556

urchin1556

loonc1560

kinchin-co(ve)1567

big boy1572

dandiprat1582

pricket1582

boy child1584

callant1597

suck-egg1609

nacketc1618

custrel1668

hospital-boy1677

whelp1710

laddie1721

charity-boy1723

pam-child1760

chappie1822

bo1825

boyo1835

wagling1837

shirttail boy1840

boysie1846

umfaan1852

nipper1859

yob1859

fellow-my-lad?1860

laddo1870

chokra1875

shegetz1885

spalpeen1891

spadger1899

bug1900

boychick1921

sonny boy1928

sonny1939

okie1943

lightie1946

outjie1961

oke1970

a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) ii. iv. sig. D.j^v Is all your delite and ioy In whiskyng and ramping abroade like a Tom boy.

a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Old Law (1656) iii. 39 Must yong Court tits [= young gentlemen courtiers] Play tomboyes tricks with her, and he live, ha?

1664 T. Porter Carnival v. i. 57 No Beard no Brain they'l cry; A Boy, a meer Tom-boy I shall appear.

1776 G. S. Carey Lect. on Mimicry 5 A tom-boy is always pleas'd with a new coat, let it fit him ever so ill.

†a. A forward, immodest, or unchaste woman. Obsolete.In later use passing into sense A. 2b.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > unchaste behaviour of woman > unchaste or loose woman

queanOE

whorec1175

malkinc1275

wenchelc1300

ribalda1350

strumpeta1350

wench1362

filtha1375

parnelc1390

sinner14..

callet1415

slut?c1425

tickle-tailc1430

harlot?a1475

mignote1489

kittock?a1500

mulea1513

trulla1516

trully?1515

danta1529

miswoman1528

stewed whore1532

Tib1533

unchaghe1534

flag1535

Katy1535

jillet1541

yaud1545

housewife1546

trinkletc1550

whippet1550

Canace1551

filthy1553

Jezebel1558

kittyc1560

loonc1560

laced mutton1563

nymph1563

limmer1566

tomboy1566

Marian1567

mort1567

cockatrice1568

franion1571

blowze1573

rannell1573

rig1575

Kita1577

poplet1577

light-skirts1578

pucelle1578

harlotry1584

light o' lovea1586

driggle-draggle1588

wagtail1592

tub-tail1595

flirt-gill1597

minx1598

hilding1599

short-heels1599

bona-roba1600

flirt1600

Hiren1600

light-heels1602

roba1602

baggage1603

cousin1604

fricatrice1607

rumbelow1611

amorosa1615

jaya1616

open-taila1618

succubus1622

snaphancea1625

flap1631

buttered bun1638

puffkin1639

vizard1652

fallen woman1659

tomrigg1662

cunt1663

quaedama1670

jilt1672

crack1677

grass-girl1691

sporting girl1694

sportswoman1705

mobbed hood1707

brim1736

trollop1742

trub1746

demi-rep1749

gillyflower1757

lady of easy virtue1766

mot1773

chicken1782

gammerstang1788

buer1807

scarlet woman1816

blowen1819

fie-fie1820

shickster?1834

streel1842

charver1846

trolly1854

bad girl1855

amateur1862

anonyma1862

demi-virgin1864

pickup1871

chippy1885

wish-wife1886

tart1887

tartleta1890

flossy1893

fly girl1893

demi-mondaine1894

floozy1899

slattern1899

scrub1900

demi-vierge1908

cake1909

coozie1912

muff1914

tarty1918

yes-girl1920

radge1923

bike1945

puta1948

messer1951

cooze1955

jamette1965

skeezer1986

slutbag1987

chickenhead1988

ho1988

1566 L. Wager Life & Repentaunce Marie Magdalene sig. Civ By your eares sometimes with pretie tusks & toyes You shall folde your haire like Tomboyes.

1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 203/2 Sainte Paule meaneth that women must not be impudent, they must not be tomboyes [Fr. hommaces], to be shorte, they must not bee vnchast.

1592 J. Lyly Midas i. ii. sig. A4^v If thou shouldest rigge vp and downe in our iackets, thou wouldst be thought a very tomboy.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) i. vi. 123 To be partner'd With Tomboyes hyr'd, with that selfe exhibition Which your owne Coffers yeeld.

1622 T. Stoughton Christians Sacrifice xii. 169 Of such short-haired Gentlewomen I find not one example either in Scripture or elsewhere. And what shall I say of such poled rigs, ramps and Tomboyes?

a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Knight of Malta ii. i, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Kkkkk3/1 Ye Filly, Ye Tit, ye Tomboy.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Tom-boy, a Ramp, or Tomrig.

b. A girl or young woman who acts or dresses in what is considered to be a boyish way, esp. one who likes rough or energetic activities conventionally more associated with boys.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > child > girl > [noun] > boyish girl

tomboy1656

tomgirl1883

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Tomboy, a girle or wench that leaps up and down like a boy.

1724 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) Tomboy, a Wanton frolicksom young Woman.

1791 Diary; or Woodfall's Reg. 23 May Among the merry group were a Lady Pentweazle;..a mischievous Tomboy, and the usual number of Nuns, Haymakers, Cooks, Scullions, &c., &c.

1830 M. R. Mitford Our Village IV. Introd. Let. 7 He had no taste for giantesses, and a particular aversion for hoydens and tomboys and women who trespassed against the delicacy of their sex.

1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere I. i. x. 271 As a rough tomboy of fourteen, she had shown Catherine..a good many uncouth signs of affection.

1918 W. Cather My Ántonia ii. ii. 149 Sally, the tomboy with short hair, was a year younger. She was..uncannily clever at all boys' sports.

1949 M. Mead Male & Female xiii. 277 To be a tomboy meant to run wild, climb trees, steal apples from orchards, fight, play boys' games.

2002 A. Corriveau Housewrights ii. 54 She still saw herself as a grubby little tomboy with cat-green eyes.

B. adj.

Of, relating to, or characteristic of a tomboy; that is or resembles a tomboy.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > child > girl > [adjective] > boyish girl

tomboy1657

tomboyish1851

tomboyful1886

1657 J. Howell Londinopolis 398 Stool-ball, though that stradling kind of Tomboy sport be not so handsome for Mayds.

1673 Gentlewomans Compan. 52 To laugh, or express any Tom-boy trick, is as bad or worse.

1708 E. Ward Mod. World Disrob'd 98 [She will] dispose her active Limbs into so many Tomboy-Postures, as if she was endeavouring to lose her Maiden-head, without the help of a Bride-groom.

1786 Daily Universal Reg. 24 Nov. This circumstance made Mrs. Proudlove despair of ever reducing the Tom-boy character..of her niece, to..the sobriety of decorum so essentially requisite for the character of a woman of fashion.

1874 Mrs. H. Wood Master of Greylands (new ed.) iv. 41 He saw a good deal to find fault with in her rude, tomboy ways.

1883 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 87 Having..practiced them in a mere romping, ‘tom-boy’ spirit when she was a young girl.

1908 Sketch 6 May 103/1 She was brought up in the Australian bush, living a free, rather tom-boy life.

1946 Liberty 15 June 5/1 How come a pretty girl like Margery Miller knows so much about the fight game? It all dates back to her tomboy days in Vermont.

2002 NFT Programme Booklet July 30/2 On a summer holiday, the Walker children meet a couple of tomboy sisters who call themselves ‘the Amazons’.

Derivatives

† tomboyade n. Obsolete an escapade typical of or appropriate to a tomboy.Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

1886 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 516 Reminiscences of scrambles and tomboyades when they were girls together.

† tomboyful adj. Obsolete rare like or characteristic of a tomboy.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > child > girl > [adjective] > boyish girl

tomboy1657

tomboyish1851

tomboyful1886

1886 J. Ashby-Sterry Lazy Minstrel 82 Careless and joyful... Pet in short petticoats—Truly tomboyful!

ˈtomboyism n. the state or fact of being a tomboy; behaviour or conduct characteristic of a tomboy.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > child > girl > [noun] > boyish girl > state of being

tomboyism1848

tomboyishness1858

1848 H. J. Forrest Dream of Reform 90 Girls must not take exercise, because society has fixed them to certain rules of decorum, which, if overstepped, would lay the trespasser open to a charge of vulgarity and tom-boyism.

1876 C. M. Yonge Womankind ii. 10 What I mean by ‘tomboyism’ is a wholesome delight in rushing about at full speed, playing at active games, climbing trees, rowing boats, making dirt-pies, and the like.

2009 Irish Times (Nexis) 25 July (Travel section) 8 It must have broken her heart..that I have never quite shaken off my propensity for tomboyism.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	tomboy
释义	tomboyn.adj. Brit. /ˈtɒmbɔɪ/, U.S. /ˈtɑmˌbɔɪ/ Forms: 1500s–1600s tomboye, 1500s– tomboy. Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Tom , boy n.¹ Etymology: < the male forename Tom (see Tom n.¹) + boy n.¹ A. n. †1. A brash, boisterous, or self-assured youth. Obsolete.The sense in quot. a1556 is uncertain, but the context supports this interpretation. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > boy > [noun] knightc893 knapec1000 knaveOE knape childc1175 knave-childa1225 groom?c1225 knight-bairnc1275 pagec1300 mana1382 swainc1386 knave-bairna1400 little mana1425 man-childa1438 boy1440 little boya1475 lad1535 boykin1540 tomboya1556 urchin1556 loonc1560 kinchin-co(ve)1567 big boy1572 dandiprat1582 pricket1582 boy child1584 callant1597 suck-egg1609 nacketc1618 custrel1668 hospital-boy1677 whelp1710 laddie1721 charity-boy1723 pam-child1760 chappie1822 bo1825 boyo1835 wagling1837 shirttail boy1840 boysie1846 umfaan1852 nipper1859 yob1859 fellow-my-lad?1860 laddo1870 chokra1875 shegetz1885 spalpeen1891 spadger1899 bug1900 boychick1921 sonny boy1928 sonny1939 okie1943 lightie1946 outjie1961 oke1970 a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) ii. iv. sig. D.j^v Is all your delite and ioy In whiskyng and ramping abroade like a Tom boy. a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Old Law (1656) iii. 39 Must yong Court tits [= young gentlemen courtiers] Play tomboyes tricks with her, and he live, ha? 1664 T. Porter Carnival v. i. 57 No Beard no Brain they'l cry; A Boy, a meer Tom-boy I shall appear. 1776 G. S. Carey Lect. on Mimicry 5 A tom-boy is always pleas'd with a new coat, let it fit him ever so ill. 2. †a. A forward, immodest, or unchaste woman. Obsolete.In later use passing into sense A. 2b. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > unchaste behaviour of woman > unchaste or loose woman queanOE whorec1175 malkinc1275 wenchelc1300 ribalda1350 strumpeta1350 wench1362 filtha1375 parnelc1390 sinner14.. callet1415 slut?c1425 tickle-tailc1430 harlot?a1475 mignote1489 kittock?a1500 mulea1513 trulla1516 trully?1515 danta1529 miswoman1528 stewed whore1532 Tib1533 unchaghe1534 flag1535 Katy1535 jillet1541 yaud1545 housewife1546 trinkletc1550 whippet1550 Canace1551 filthy1553 Jezebel1558 kittyc1560 loonc1560 laced mutton1563 nymph1563 limmer1566 tomboy1566 Marian1567 mort1567 cockatrice1568 franion1571 blowze1573 rannell1573 rig1575 Kita1577 poplet1577 light-skirts1578 pucelle1578 harlotry1584 light o' lovea1586 driggle-draggle1588 wagtail1592 tub-tail1595 flirt-gill1597 minx1598 hilding1599 short-heels1599 bona-roba1600 flirt1600 Hiren1600 light-heels1602 roba1602 baggage1603 cousin1604 fricatrice1607 rumbelow1611 amorosa1615 jaya1616 open-taila1618 succubus1622 snaphancea1625 flap1631 buttered bun1638 puffkin1639 vizard1652 fallen woman1659 tomrigg1662 cunt1663 quaedama1670 jilt1672 crack1677 grass-girl1691 sporting girl1694 sportswoman1705 mobbed hood1707 brim1736 trollop1742 trub1746 demi-rep1749 gillyflower1757 lady of easy virtue1766 mot1773 chicken1782 gammerstang1788 buer1807 scarlet woman1816 blowen1819 fie-fie1820 shickster?1834 streel1842 charver1846 trolly1854 bad girl1855 amateur1862 anonyma1862 demi-virgin1864 pickup1871 chippy1885 wish-wife1886 tart1887 tartleta1890 flossy1893 fly girl1893 demi-mondaine1894 floozy1899 slattern1899 scrub1900 demi-vierge1908 cake1909 coozie1912 muff1914 tarty1918 yes-girl1920 radge1923 bike1945 puta1948 messer1951 cooze1955 jamette1965 skeezer1986 slutbag1987 chickenhead1988 ho1988 1566 L. Wager Life & Repentaunce Marie Magdalene sig. Civ By your eares sometimes with pretie tusks & toyes You shall folde your haire like Tomboyes. 1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 203/2 Sainte Paule meaneth that women must not be impudent, they must not be tomboyes [Fr. hommaces], to be shorte, they must not bee vnchast. 1592 J. Lyly Midas i. ii. sig. A4^v If thou shouldest rigge vp and downe in our iackets, thou wouldst be thought a very tomboy. a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) i. vi. 123 To be partner'd With Tomboyes hyr'd, with that selfe exhibition Which your owne Coffers yeeld. View more context for this quotation 1622 T. Stoughton Christians Sacrifice xii. 169 Of such short-haired Gentlewomen I find not one example either in Scripture or elsewhere. And what shall I say of such poled rigs, ramps and Tomboyes? a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Knight of Malta ii. i, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Kkkkk3/1 Ye Filly, Ye Tit, ye Tomboy. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Tom-boy, a Ramp, or Tomrig. b. A girl or young woman who acts or dresses in what is considered to be a boyish way, esp. one who likes rough or energetic activities conventionally more associated with boys. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > girl > [noun] > boyish girl tomboy1656 tomgirl1883 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Tomboy, a girle or wench that leaps up and down like a boy. 1724 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) Tomboy, a Wanton frolicksom young Woman. 1791 Diary; or Woodfall's Reg. 23 May Among the merry group were a Lady Pentweazle;..a mischievous Tomboy, and the usual number of Nuns, Haymakers, Cooks, Scullions, &c., &c. 1830 M. R. Mitford Our Village IV. Introd. Let. 7 He had no taste for giantesses, and a particular aversion for hoydens and tomboys and women who trespassed against the delicacy of their sex. 1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere I. i. x. 271 As a rough tomboy of fourteen, she had shown Catherine..a good many uncouth signs of affection. 1918 W. Cather My Ántonia ii. ii. 149 Sally, the tomboy with short hair, was a year younger. She was..uncannily clever at all boys' sports. 1949 M. Mead Male & Female xiii. 277 To be a tomboy meant to run wild, climb trees, steal apples from orchards, fight, play boys' games. 2002 A. Corriveau Housewrights ii. 54 She still saw herself as a grubby little tomboy with cat-green eyes. B. adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a tomboy; that is or resembles a tomboy. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > girl > [adjective] > boyish girl tomboy1657 tomboyish1851 tomboyful1886 1657 J. Howell Londinopolis 398 Stool-ball, though that stradling kind of Tomboy sport be not so handsome for Mayds. 1673 Gentlewomans Compan. 52 To laugh, or express any Tom-boy trick, is as bad or worse. 1708 E. Ward Mod. World Disrob'd 98 [She will] dispose her active Limbs into so many Tomboy-Postures, as if she was endeavouring to lose her Maiden-head, without the help of a Bride-groom. 1786 Daily Universal Reg. 24 Nov. This circumstance made Mrs. Proudlove despair of ever reducing the Tom-boy character..of her niece, to..the sobriety of decorum so essentially requisite for the character of a woman of fashion. 1874 Mrs. H. Wood Master of Greylands (new ed.) iv. 41 He saw a good deal to find fault with in her rude, tomboy ways. 1883 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 87 Having..practiced them in a mere romping, ‘tom-boy’ spirit when she was a young girl. 1908 Sketch 6 May 103/1 She was brought up in the Australian bush, living a free, rather tom-boy life. 1946 Liberty 15 June 5/1 How come a pretty girl like Margery Miller knows so much about the fight game? It all dates back to her tomboy days in Vermont. 2002 NFT Programme Booklet July 30/2 On a summer holiday, the Walker children meet a couple of tomboy sisters who call themselves ‘the Amazons’. Derivatives † tomboyade n. Obsolete an escapade typical of or appropriate to a tomboy.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1886 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 516 Reminiscences of scrambles and tomboyades when they were girls together. † tomboyful adj. Obsolete rare like or characteristic of a tomboy. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > girl > [adjective] > boyish girl tomboy1657 tomboyish1851 tomboyful1886 1886 J. Ashby-Sterry Lazy Minstrel 82 Careless and joyful... Pet in short petticoats—Truly tomboyful! ˈtomboyism n. the state or fact of being a tomboy; behaviour or conduct characteristic of a tomboy. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > girl > [noun] > boyish girl > state of being tomboyism1848 tomboyishness1858 1848 H. J. Forrest Dream of Reform 90 Girls must not take exercise, because society has fixed them to certain rules of decorum, which, if overstepped, would lay the trespasser open to a charge of vulgarity and tom-boyism. 1876 C. M. Yonge Womankind ii. 10 What I mean by ‘tomboyism’ is a wholesome delight in rushing about at full speed, playing at active games, climbing trees, rowing boats, making dirt-pies, and the like. 2009 Irish Times (Nexis) 25 July (Travel section) 8 It must have broken her heart..that I have never quite shaken off my propensity for tomboyism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.a1556
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