(1) Seen through the eyes of her sister, Elizabeth, she appears to be a vulgar, lusty hoyden, whose outrageous antics put all her sisters' reputations at risk.
Tomboy
Definition:
(n.) A romping girl; a hoiden.
Example Sentences:
(1) She was a gymnast first, a 'garçon manqué' as she says, a tomboy with cropped hair, awkward and angular.
(2) Why did Jessica and Holly - the dark-haired girl and the blonde, the 'tomboy' and the 'angel', the swimmer and the majorette - die that evening?
(3) Perhaps one of the most obvious examples of the sexism Page has encountered is that pretty much as soon as she came to international attention in Juno, rumours started about her sexuality, simply because, to quote one well-known accusatory blogpost in 2008, "she certainly dresses like a, you know, tomboy and if you Google 'Ellen Page boyfriend' , not a whole lot comes up."
(4) Lawrence, according to Foster, is variously "ballsy", "a spritely tomboy", "a hoot" and "a gem with a killer stare".
(5) Hodder will publish 10 contemporary Famous Five books in August, starting with Five on a Treasure Island, originally published in 1942, in which siblings Julian, Dick and Anne first spend the summer with their tomboy cousin George (Georgina, by rights) and her dog Timmy, and hunt for treasure on Kirrin island.
(6) She now appears slimmer, older and somewhat sexualised, in comparison to the teenage tomboy from last year's Oscar-winning animation.
(7) As a child growing up in the 1970s I was an athletic tomboy and, aged 10, I was given a nosebleed by a boy in the school playground.
(8) "When I was a kid, my parents were called in by the headmaster at my school because I was such a tomboy and spent so much of my time playing with the boys that he was afraid that, as we all reached puberty, I would be abandoned.
(9) She was, instead, a confident tomboy, who, she admitted later, yearned to cut her hair short.
(10) Klein says she grew up as a tomboy that turned into a tom man.
(11) In all fairness, no one can speak of transsexual or transvestite children as has been done in the past, but only of feminine or effeminate boys and tomboy girls.
(12) She's tough without being a tomboy and attractive without being a sophomore although she has elements of both.
(13) She gives a history of remarkable tomboyism during her latency years and increasing withdrawal from peers and family during early adolescence.
(14) Six of these items (playing with boys' toys, playing with girls' toys, dressing up in men's clothes, dressing up in women's clothes, paying attention to women's fashions, and being considered a tomboy) revealed statistically significant differences between the heterosexual and homosexual females.
(15) The women with anomalous dominance (consisting of left-handed and ambidextrous as well as right-handed women with first-degree non-right-handed relatives) were compared to women with standard dominance (right-handed women with all right-handed first-degree relatives) on the Bem Test of Sex Role Identity and a tomboy scale.
(16) Across three samples, handedness classifications were related to both tomboy characteristics and sex role identification.
(17) However, studies have also shown that while these exposed girls exhibited long-term tomboyism, their gender identity was feminine.
(18) And Twitter is flinging snowballs too: Tom Boyer (@tomboyer) @ kidweil FIFA should be embarrassed by letting this USA CRC game start in the first place.BPL games aren't played in this mess.
(19) Four of them were reared as girls and differentiated a female gender identity with tomboyism.
(20) Tutin was mesmerising as this uncomprehending, terrified middle-aged Sleeping Beauty who still perceived herself as a tomboy teenager, and this should have given a boost to her career.