Mary büyüyen bir erkek fatmaydı ve arabaları ve traktörleri onarmaktan hoşlanıyordu. - Mary was a tomboy growing up and liked to repair cars and tractors.
Bir kız, bir erkek fatma olabilir. - A girl can be a tomboy.
If you say that a girl is a tomboy, you mean that she likes playing rough or noisy games, or doing things that were traditionally considered to be things that boys enjoy. a girl who likes playing the same games as boys (Tom ( TOM) + boy)
[ 'täm-"boi ] (noun.) 1592. First attested in 1553 when it originally meant a “boisterous boy”, later in 1579 when it came to mean an “immodest woman”, and then finally in 1592 it developed its modern meaning of a “girl who acts like a boy”; from Tom, familiar form of Thomas + boy, “male child”.