tomrigg

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English

Alternative forms

tomrig

Etymology

See tomboy and rig.

Noun

tomrigg (plural tomriggs)

  1. (archaic) A rude, wild, wanton or masculine girl
    Synonyms: hoiden, hoyden, tomboy
    • 1728, John Dennis, Remarks on Mr. Pope's Rape of the lock. In several letters to a friend. With a preface, occasion'd by the late Treatise on the profound, and the Dunciad., London: J. Roberts, page 16:
      And yet in the very next Canto she appears an arrant Ramp and a Tomrigg;

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