tomrig

English edit

Etymology edit

See tomboy and rig.

Noun edit

tomrig (plural tomrigs)

(archaic) A rude, wild, wanton girl; a hoiden; a 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; […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tomrig”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)