Is there such a word?
To be used when speaking of the "tough girl" or the tomboy your parents don't want you to be involved with. The troublemaker in girl form.
Best I've come up with so far is Ruffian but I'm wondering if there's anything else that fits.
Thanks!
Best Answer
Just to be plain, and setting aside modern uses for the moment, the original 'hooligans' were boys:
This and numerous other similar references in the intervening years antedate OED's earliest, July 1898, attestation of the term in the sense of "A young street rough, a member of a street gang." However, by August of 1898, the 'hooligan girl' appears on the scene, with a vengeance:
As remarked in the clipping, no one sex has a monopoly on hooliganism. That circumstance prevails to this day.