My daughter is a tomboy.
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Tomboy
//ˈtɒm.bɔɪ//
Synonyms for "tomboy" (60 found)
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61 translations across 35 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- فَتَاة مُسْتَرْجِلَة noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
Bengali
3 entries- গেছো মেয়ে noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
- ধিঙ্গি মেয়ে noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
- মর্দানি noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
Breton
1 entries- yourc'h noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
Bulgarian
1 entries- мъжкарана noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
Burmese
1 entries- ယောက်ျားလျာ noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
Catalan
2 entries- gallimarsot noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
- noia masculina noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 男人婆 noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 假小子 noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
- 女漢子 /女汉子 noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
Danish
1 entries- drengepige noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
Dutch
2 entries- tomboy noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
- wildebras noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
Finnish
1 entries- poikatyttö noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
French
2 entries- garçon manqué noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
- garçonne noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
German
4 entries- Mannsweib noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
- Wildfang noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
- an ihr ist ein Junge verloren gegangen noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
- burschikos noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
Greek
1 entries- αγοροκόριτσο noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
Hungarian
1 entries- fiús lány noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
Irish
1 entries- cailín báire noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
Italian
1 entries- maschiaccio noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
Japanese
1 entries- お転婆 noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
Kazakh
2 entries- еркек-шора noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
- еркекшора noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
Korean
1 entries- 말괄량이 noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
Latin
1 entries- puella masculina noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
Levantine Arabic
1 entries- حَسَن صَبِيّ noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
Macedonian
1 entries- машкуда́нка noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
Norman
1 entries- garçonniéthe noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- guttejente noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
Polish
4 entries- baba-chłop noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
- babochłop noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
- chłopczyca noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
- chłopobaba noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
Portuguese
2 entries- maria-rapaz noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
- menina macha noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
Romanian
1 entries- fată băiețoasă noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
Russian
3 entries- мужичка noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
- паца́нка noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
- томбой noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
Spanish
4 entries- chica masculina noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
- chicazo noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
- hombruna noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
- machorra noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
Sundanese
1 entries- balakasikang noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
Swedish
1 entries- pojkflicka noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
Tagalog
1 entries- tomboy noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
Turkish
2 entries- erkek Fatma noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
- tomboy noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
West Flemish
1 entries- knechtebrokke noun (girl who acts as a typical boy would)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
A girl can be a tomboy.
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Mary is a tomboy.
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Were you a tomboy?
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