Crossword-Solution: TOMBOY 6 letters, 43 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Word Word Type Definition
Tomboy n. A romping girl; a hoiden.

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TOMBOY anagram BOTOMY

We have 43 clues for the answer “TOMBOY”

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She may prefer G.I. Joe to Barbie 1 answer
Girl, in the good old days. 1 answer
HOIDEN 1 answer
Outdoorsy girl 1 answer
Peppermint Patty, e.g. 1 answer
Peppermint Patty, for one 1 answer
Phase for a schoolgirl. 1 answer
ROMPING girl 1 answer
Roughhousing lass 1 answer
Rowdy gal 1 answer
Rowdy girl 1 answer
Girl with four brothers, maybe 1 answer
She prefers to play horse over house? 1 answer
She'd rather play H-O-R-S-E than play house 1 answer
She'd rather roughhouse than play house 1 answer
She's just one of the guys? 1 answer
Spirited lass 1 answer
Tatum O'Neal played one in "The Bad News Bears" 1 answer
Tatum O'Neal's character in "The Bad News Bears," e.g. 1 answer
Tree-climbing female, stereotypically 1 answer
a girl who behaves in a boyish manner 1 answer
girl who acts or dresses like a boy 1 answer
Girl who plays football, perhaps 1 answer
Athletic miss 1 answer
GIRL behaving like a boy 1 answer
Gender role-defying girl 1 answer
Girl dressed in masculine manner 1 answer
Girl enjoying rough outdoor activities 1 answer
Girl in a tree 1 answer
Girl in trousers 1 answer
Girl who challenges stereotypes 1 answer
Girl who climbs trees, say 1 answer
Girl who likes rough and noisy activities 1 answer
Girl who might dislike dolls 1 answer
Old-fashioned girl. 3 answers
A LOGGER WHO MARKS TREES TO BE FELLED 10 answers
A GIRL WHO LIKES EXPLORATIONS INTO KINKY LOVE 10 answers
CHARLIE LIKES TO PLAY MARY 10 answers
Barbie 11 answers
A PLIANT YOUNG TREE 11 answers
Gamine 12 answers
flapper 38 answers
hoyden 40 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEEAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TOMBOY (5)

Charley, the only son—they had lost an older boy—was sixteen; Julia, who was known as the musical one, was fourteen when I was; and Sally, the tomboy with short hair, was a year younger.
My Ántonia Willa Cather 1995
Miss Harrison reads her lines well, but she is either a maiden-all-forlorn or a tomboy; insists on reading into the part all sorts of deeper meanings and highly coloured suggestions wholly out of harmony with the pastoral setting.
The Troll Garden and Selected Stories Willa Cather 1995
She was a strange mixture of tomboy and bookworm, which was a mercifully kind arrangement for both body and mind.
Fanny Herself Edna Ferber 2008
But your absurd words are as bad as Jo’s slang.” “If Jo is a tomboy and Amy a goose, what am I, please?” asked Beth, ready to share the lecture.
Little Women Louisa May Alcott 1996
The head and hind parts of a papier mache horse were fastened to the "tomboy" in such a way as to make it appear that she was riding; a cloth was let down to hide her feet, and they ran to and fro, one in one direction and the other in the other, she jerking her unmanageable steed, and he singing songs, and all to the music of the drum and the cymbals.
The Chinese Boy and Girl Isaac Taylor Headland 1996

Quotes with TOMBOY (3)

It's definitely difficult being a woman and growing up a girl. When you're graceful, people say you lack personality; when you're serene, people say you're boring; when you're confident, people say you're arrogant; when you're feminine, people say you're too girly; and when you climb trees, people say you're too much of a tomboy! As a woman, you really need to develop a very strong sense of self and the earlier you can do that, the better! You have to be all the things that y…
C. JoyBell C.
The busybody (banned as sexist, demeaning to older women) who lives next door called my daughter a tomboy (banned as sexist) when she climbed the jungle (banned; replaced with "rain forest") gym. Then she had the nerve to call her an egghead and a bookworm (both banned as offensive; replaced with "intellectual") because she read fairy (banned because suggests homosexuality; replace with "elf") tales. I'm tired of the Language Police turning a deaf ear (banned as handicapism) …
Denise Duhamel
She reached behind her back and pulled out slender, black nunchucks and simply invited them to come get her. Their eyes could barely follow the chucks as they circled around her shoulders and torso slapping back and forth, and up and under, while she remained focused and composed with her eastern, tomboy flair.
K.N. Smith The Urban Boys: Discovery of the Five Senses
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Used 30 times in crossword archives (1956–2025).