tomboyish

adjective

tom·​boy·​ish -ȯi‧ish 

: being or playing the tomboy : hoydenish

even at her most tomboyish, she had been dainty and fastidious

—C. B. Kelland

tomboyishly adverb

tomboyishness noun

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