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tomboys

tomboys is the plural of tomboy.

Meaning of tomboy

Noun

tomboy (plural tomboys)

  1. A girl who behaves in a typically boyish manner.
    • His sister, his dearest and only playmate, is a tomboy at heart.
  2. (obsolete) A rude, boisterous boy.
  3. (obsolete) An immodest or bold woman.
  4. (Philippines, colloquial) A butch lesbian.

Questions about tomboys

What is tomboys the plural of?
Tomboys is the plural of tomboy.

Words near tomboys in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tomboys (page history and authors); tomboy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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