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tomboylike

tomboylike adjective: like a tomboy; tomboyish.

Adjective

tomboylike (comparative more tomboylike, superlative most tomboylike)

  1. Like a tomboy; tomboyish.
    • Evelyn spoke of having been her father's favorite as a child, of Father's appreciating her competence, energy, and tomboylike feistiness...1993, Kenneth Levin, Unconscious fantasy in psychotherapy
    • And few singers matched her deadpan comic timing and physical nimbleness in lighter roles like Rosina in Rossini’s “Barbiere di Siviglia,” whom Ms. Sills portrayed as a ditsy yet determined young woman, and Marie, the tomboylike heroine raised by a military regiment in Donizetti’s “Fille du...2007 July 3, Anthony Tommasini, “Beverly Sills, All-American Diva, Is Dead at 78”, in New York Times

Forms of tomboylike

comparativemore tomboylike
superlativemost tomboylike

Origin of tomboylike

From tomboy + -like.

Questions about tomboylike

What does tomboylike mean?
Tomboylike means like a tomboy; tomboyish.
What part of speech is tomboylike?
Tomboylike is an adjective.

Words near tomboylike in the dictionary

  1. tomboyhood
  2. tomboyish
  3. tomboyishly
  4. tomboyishness
  5. tomboyism
  6. tomboylike
  7. tomboys
  8. tombozine
  9. tombs
  10. tombsful
  11. tombstone

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