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tomboy

/ˈtɑm.bɔɪ/ noun C2
  1. A girl who behaves in a typically boyish manner. · His sister, his dearest and only playmate, is a tomboy at heart.
  2. A butch lesbian. (colloquial)

Plural tomboys

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She had promised to pay for a quarter’s music lessons for Diana, but now she is determined to do nothing at all for such a tomboy.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 153 · C1

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