What's the difference between tomboy and tomcat?

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.

Tomcat


Definition:

  • (n.) A male cat, especially when full grown or of large size.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The captain of the ship said it was under assault by Iranian gunboats at the time and that the Airbus A300 was misidentified as an attacking F-14 Tomcat.
  • (2) Resorting to a series of Ted the swordsman scenes which may merely be the lurid fantasies of the heroine, director Christine Jeffs never makes it clear whether Hughes was a rampaging philanderer whose sexual conquests and general obliviousness to Plath's mounting depression led to her demise, or a man driven into other women's arms by his wife's chronic melancholy - perhaps the most time-honoured excuse of the inveterate tomcat - or both.
  • (3) The histochemical localization of some oxidoreductases was investigated in the epididymides of adult tomcats.
  • (4) The observations as described in Part I indicated that urine of estrous female female positively influences the frequency of flehmen in tomcats.
  • (5) Female studies included laparoscopies as indicated intrauterine insemination with Tomcat catheter (Sherwood Medical, St. Louis, MO) was performed in all cases.
  • (6) Dell was first made aware of the issue in June 2013 when a Dell user called “three west” first posted about the smell of a new Dell Latitude E6430u saying “the machine is great, but it smells as if it was assembled near a tomcat's litter box.
  • (7) The symptoms and the course run by cutaneous asthenia, a skin disease which is congenital and probably hereditable, are reported in a Birmese tomcat.
  • (8) We describe a metallic cervical cannula that allows the use of the popular Tomcat catheter in the majority of patients in whom we were unable to achieve a successful ET with the Tomcat alone.
  • (9) By means of microsurgical technique and under the control of the ophthalmoscope 300 mul of isotone solution of NaCl with 22Na or o-131J-iodo-hippuric acid were injected into the space between the retina and pigment epithelium of 28 narcotized tomcats after having closed the inferior retina vessels by photocoagulation about 1 hr before in an umber of the animals.
  • (10) This exuberant early 19th-century novel by ETA Hoffmann is framed as a poetically pretentious tomcat's autobiography, which gets mixed up, due to a printer's error, with the biography of a composer.
  • (11) This histochemically enstablished pattern of enzyme activity in the epididymis of the tomcat was compared with those of other mammals.
  • (12) A tomcat hijacked a plane, stuck a pistol into the pilot's ribs and demanded: "Take me to the canaries."
  • (13) The ET technique at Tygerberg Hospital, using the Tomcat catheter, is described.
  • (14) In acute experiments on tomcats after stimulation of supraoptic nuclei (SON), postoptic nuclei (PON), preoptic area of the hypothalamus, cervical sympathetic nerve (SCN) and vagal afferent fibers (VA) the following data were obtained in the preparations stained by Gomori method: four pair accessory cell groups in the rostral part of the hypothalamus were observed: 1) periventricular group (along the walls of the III ventricle; 2) the preoptic group (above the preoptic recess; 3) the parafornical group (around the fornix columns), and 4) the spindle-shaped group.
  • (15) "I wouldn't trust myself with anything except for comic verse or bad-on-purpose verse: now you've met my cats you'll understand why I was very keen to do The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr …".
  • (16) Both urine and cheek gland secretion of the female donor appeared to contain pheromones which inform the tomcat about her hormonal phase.
  • (17) An introducer--the FT introducer--designed to overcome technical difficulties in selected patients in passing the Tomcat catheter is described.
  • (18) The histochemical localization of 6 lysosomal enzymes was studied in the epididymis of adult tomcats.

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