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Significats de tomboyish en anglès

Used of girls; wild and boisterous.

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Examples for "hoydenish"
1
Their range, between the extremes of the demure and the hoydenish, is greater.
The Friendships of Women
2
Her principal charm was a laughing, hoydenish countenance and roguish eyes.
The Titan
3
His manners were hoydenish, but there was nothing of the clown about him.
The Survivor
4
Other riders of her sex might be rough, hoydenish, or masculine.
Tangled Trails: A Western Detective Story
5
It was a hoydenish trick, but Kitty had enacted it for Lord Monckton's benefit.
The Voice in the Fog
Ús de tomboyish en anglès
1
You ought to be ashamed to always encourage her in her tomboyish ways, Julius.
My Brilliant Career
2
As a child she had been untamed and tomboyish, a noisy, messy, natural force.
The water room
3
Late in the afternoon, when she had just been particularly tomboyish, he said to Neil:
I capture the castle
4
It looked tomboyish, she said, though she thought you two were very good for boys.
A Jolly Fellowship
5
She was a thin girl and rather pretty, and nice in a tomboyish sort of way.
Hill girl
6
Star really loves Rihanna and the tomboyish ways.
Ebony
7
He took her square tomboyish hand in his.
Lowboy
8
There was nothing remotely tomboyish about me either.
The Guardian
9
Mary was studious, neat, and religious; Matilda was tomboyish, impatient of restraint, and fond of unedifying associates.
Young Lives
10
Mikell, tall, straw-haired, and tomboyish: must take after her father, since Mrs. Lunsford was dark, tiny, and demure.
Unfinished desires: a novel
11
She was not a pretty girl, but was a tremendously healthy one-strong, well developed, and tomboyish in her activities.
The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross / Or, Amateur The...
12
So when Will brought Emily home-anactual girl, and pretty in a tomboyish sort of way-allI felt was relief.
Lowboy
13
Holly and Jessica were two versions of the perfect middle England everychild, one tomboyish, smart and dark-haired, the other quieter and fair.
The Guardian
14
During this brief antiphonal exchange with her flock, Mother Malloy acknowledged each girl's essence-LoraJean Cramer's stolid complacency, Mikell Lunsford's tomboyish inattention.
Unfinished desires: a novel
15
She was a "completely tomboyish child", but as a teenager discovered she "could enjoy femininity, makeup and clothes, the whole thing.
The Guardian
16
Bethany, a short, tomboyish girl with a pair of deep dimples, was just as poor a match for me on paper as Aimee.
The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest ...
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