When I was young I was a total tomboy!

Hey everybody, just a really quick lesson to teach a fun word:

Tomboy

A tomboy is a girl who dresses or acts like a boy. She plays with guns not dolls, she likes to do sports, most of her friends are boys, she likes to play outside, etc.

My sister is such tomboy! She never wears skirts and is always playing baseball!

Can you believe she used to be a tomboy??? Now she's a supermodel!

This is only used to talk about YOUNG GIRLS you CAN'T use it to talk about adult women!

A word you can use to talk about men who act in a feminine way is "effeminate" and this can be used for men or boys but probably is most often used for adults.

For a boy you would just say "He acts like a girl" and probably his father would say "Be a man! Don't cry!" or "Stop acting like a girl!". Bad words for men or boys that are effeminate are pansy (old fashioned) and among kids/teenagers if a boy/guy is not being brave enough or he is being cowardly you might hear "Don't be such a wuss!" or "Stop being such a sissy!"(a bit old fashioned).

You will often hear those expressions in movies where some boys are going to do something stupid(like hit a beehive with a bat) and one boy doesn't want to do it because he thinks it is a bad idea. The other boys will accuse him of being a wuss to make him do it...

Actually, wuss is also old fashioned these days you would probably hear "Stop being such a pussy!" but this is REALLY vulgar and so it is virtually always used by guys.

OK that is it for now, have a great weekend!

Phil