tomrigg

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noun

A rude, wild, wanton or masculine girl

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Meanings

nountomrigg (plural tomriggs)

plural tomriggs

  1. archaicA rude, wild, wanton or masculine girl

    And yet in the very next Canto she appears an arrant Ramp and a Tomrigg;[…]

    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

    Synonyms: hoiden, hoyden, tomboy

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA rude, wild, wanton or masculine girl

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hoidenhoydentomboy

Origin

See tomboy and rig.

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APA

tomrigg. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tomrigg

MLA

“tomrigg.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tomrigg. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tomrigg,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tomrigg.

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