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English
tomrig
Etymology
See tomboy and rig.
Noun
tomrigg (plural tomriggs)
- (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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