Tomboyish

Definition: Tomboyish

Tomboyish

Adjective

1. Used of boisterous girls.

2. Used of girls; wild and boisterous.

Synonyms: Tomboyish

Synonyms: hoyden(a) (adj), hoydenish (adj). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Tomboyish

"Tomboyish" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tomboyish" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	8	124,375

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tomboyish

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
girl rugby tomboyish	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Tomboyish

Language		Translations for "tomboyish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		burschikos (a student like, boyish, butch, casual). (various references)

Greek		ώσαν αγριοκόριτσο. (various references)

Italian		selvaggio (brutal, ferocious, frantically, haggard, primitive, rampant, savage, tigerish, wild). (various references)

Pig Latin		omboyishtay

Spanish		caza (bag, chase, Chevy, fighter, fighter plane, frantically, game, haggard, Hunt, hunting, lift, manhunt, prowl, pursuit, pursuit plane, rampant, shoot, shooting, spore, tigerish, trapping). (various references)

Turkish		erkeksi (mannish, mannishly, masculine, virile), erkek gibi (bull, hoydenish, manlike, mannish, mannishly, masculine), erkek fatma gibi. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Tomboyish

Derivations
	Words beginning with "tomboyish": tomboyishness, tomboyishnesses. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Tomboyish

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-h-i-m-o-o-s-t-y"
	-2 letters: hoboism, smoothy, symbiot, tomboys.
	-3 letters: bhoots, booths, bosomy, boyish, mythoi, mythos, oboist, ostomy, smithy, smooth, tomboy, toyish.
	-4 letters: bhoot, bitsy, booms, boomy, boost, booth, boots, booty, bosom, bothy, boyos, hobos, hoist, homos, hoots, hooty, misty, moist, moots, moths, mothy, myths, obits, omits, shoot, smith, sooth, sooty, stimy, thymi, tombs, toyos.
	-5 letters: bios, bits, boom.
	Words containing the letters "b-h-i-m-o-o-s-t-y"
	+4 letters: tomboyishness.
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