Crossword-Solution: TOMBOYS
We have 11 clues for the answer “TOMBOYS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Boisterous girls. | 1 answer |
| Girls of the good old days. | 1 answer |
| Girly girls they're not | 1 answer |
| Hoydens | 1 answer |
| Outdoorsy girls | 1 answer |
| Pippi Longstocking types | 1 answer |
| Some treehouse builders | 1 answer |
| They'd rather roughhouse than play house | 1 answer |
| Tough girls | 1 answer |
| Tree-climbing girls, e.g. | 1 answer |
| girls who behave in a boyish manner | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
AEZECM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with TOMBOYS (5)
Tomboys make strong women usually, and I had far rather find Rose playing football with Mac than puttering over bead-work like that affected midget, Ariadne Blish.” “But she cannot go on playing football very long, and we must not forget that she has a woman's work to do by and by,” began Mrs.
Now, some of these things were true, and some were not, and some will never happen again; for the towns and cities no longer conduct themselves like headstrong young tomboys out on a lark, but have grown into ancient and decorous settlements some twenty-five or thirty years old.
What with bicycle riders and great rough tomboys generally, with large hands and larger feet, I confess I do not care about them.
Child as he was, his propensities were too much limited by the bounds of the town-house and garden, and the society of his sisters, one too old and one too young to serve as tomboys.
There were tomboys and hoydens and solemn students; hard-working sculptresses and dreamy poetesses; girls who wanted to be boys, and girls who wanted to be nuns; girls who were frantic to vote, and girls who loathed the thought of independence; girls who ached to shock people, and girls of the prunes-and-prismatic type, patricians and precisians, anarchists and Bohemians.
Quotes with TOMBOYS (1)
Men grow up expecting to be the hero of their own story. Women grow up expecting to be the supporting actress in somebody else's. As a kid growing up with books and films and stories instead of friends, that was always the narrative injustice that upset me more than anything else. I felt it sometimes like a sharp pain under the ribcage, the kind of chest pain that lasts for minutes and hours and might be nothing at all or might mean you're slowly dying of something mundane an…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1961–2020).