Meanings of tomboyish in English

You ought to be ashamed to always encourage her in her tomboyish ways, Julius.

As a child she had been untamed and tomboyish, a noisy, messy, natural force.

Late in the afternoon, when she had just been particularly tomboyish, he said to Neil:

It looked tomboyish, she said, though she thought you two were very good for boys.

She was a thin girl and rather pretty, and nice in a tomboyish sort of way.

Star really loves Rihanna and the tomboyish ways.

He took her square tomboyish hand in his.

There was nothing remotely tomboyish about me either.

Mary was studious, neat, and religious; Matilda was tomboyish, impatient of restraint, and fond of unedifying associates.

Mikell, tall, straw-haired, and tomboyish: must take after her father, since Mrs. Lunsford was dark, tiny, and demure.

She was not a pretty girl, but was a tremendously healthy one-strong, well developed, and tomboyish in her activities.

So when Will brought Emily home-anactual girl, and pretty in a tomboyish sort of way-allI felt was relief.

Holly and Jessica were two versions of the perfect middle England everychild, one tomboyish, smart and dark-haired, the other quieter and fair.

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.

She was a "completely tomboyish child", but as a teenager discovered she "could enjoy femininity, makeup and clothes, the whole thing.

Bethany, a short, tomboyish girl with a pair of deep dimples, was just as poor a match for me on paper as Aimee.