tomgirls

Noun

tomgirl (plural tomgirls)

1. A boy who behaves in a typically girlish manner.
   • This tactic didn't work, so several weeks later, in a variation on a theme, I reported to two girls on the playground "I'm a tomgirl," calculating that if tomboys exist, tomgirls must also, and I must be one. That didn't work either, […]1998, Claudine Griggs, S/He: Changing Sex and Changing Clothes, page 12

   Synonyms:

   janegirl

2. Synonym of tomboy (“girl who behaves in a typically boyish manner”).
   • Homosexual stirrings in children before puberty are very difficult to evaluate; most small boys with signs of effeminacy probably do not become homosexuals as adults and most tomgirls become heterosexual.1969, Harry Chapman, Sexual maneuvers and stratagems, page 121

   Synonyms:

   tomboy