2 Sentences With "tomboyishly"

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Tomboyishly glamorous in her overalls, Burdick sings sweetly and spars ably.
According to the Cook Islands Maori dictionary (1995) 'akava'ine is the prefix aka ("to be or to behave like") and va'ine ("woman"), or simply, "to behave as a woman". (Antonym: akatāne ("act manly, or tomboyishly").) The New Zealand Māori word Whakawahine has a parallel meaning. According to Alexeyeff, Akava'ine is a Cook Islands Māori word for women who have an inflated opinion of themselves, draw attention to themselves in ways that disrupt groupness, do not heed others advice, or who act in a self-serving or self-promoting way. Sometimes the word laelae is also used typically when implying criticism or ridicule of feminine behaviour displayed by a man, for example being described as effeminate or homosexual.