トムボーイ「ボーイッシュな女の子のこと」←？

**風吹けば名無し** · 2022/06/30(木) 23:46:30.65

トムガールならともかくトムボーイはただのトムなんよ

**風吹けば名無し** · 2022/06/30(木) 23:47:57.19

First attested in Ralph Roister Doister (published 1567, written circa 1552), where it is used to describe a boisterous girl;[1] the OED says the citation is however "generally taken" to mean a boisterous boy, and says that a use in The Old Law (published 1656, thought to have been written circa 1599) "certainly" means a boy:[2] "must young court-tits / play tomboys' tricks with her?"[3] By 1579 it was attested in the meaning "an immodest woman" and by no later than 1592 it had developed its modern meaning of a “girl who acts like a boy”;[2] from tom +? boy.やで