Crossword clues for tomboy
tomboy
- Young gender-bender
- Tatum O'Neal's character in "The Bad News Bears," e.g
- Tatum O'Neal played one in "The Bad News Bears"
- She's just one of the guys?
- She'd rather play H-O-R-S-E than play house
- She may prefer G.I. Joe to Barbie
- Rowdy gal
- Outdoorsy girl
- One defying traditional gender norms
- Girl with four brothers, maybe
- Girl who climbs trees, say
- Girl enjoying rough outdoor activities
- Gender role-defying girl
- Roughhousing lass
- Girl who plays football, perhaps
- Girl who challenges stereotypes
- A girl who behaves in a boyish manner
- Hoyden
- Spirited lass
- Athletic miss
- Feisty female to play Doctor Who, at last, enters
- Rowdy girl
- Peppermint Patty, for one
- Tree-climbing female, stereotypically
- She prefers to play horse over house?
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tomboy \Tom"boy`\, n. [Tom (for Thomas, L. Thomas, fr. Gr. ? )+
boy.]
A romping girl; a hoiden. [Colloq.]
--J. Fletcher.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, "rude, boisterous boy," from Tom + boy; meaning "wild, romping girl, girl who acts like a spirited boy" is first recorded 1590s. It also could mean "strumpet, bold or immodest woman" (1570s). Compare tomrig "rude, wild girl." Related: Tomboyish.
Wiktionary
n. A girl who behaves in a typically boyish manner.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A tomboy is a girl who exhibits characteristics or behaviors considered typical of a boy, including wearing masculine clothing and engaging in games and activities that are physical in nature and are considered in many cultures to be unfeminine or the domain of boys. Tomboy, according to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), "has been connected with connotations of rudeness and impropriety" throughout its use.
Tomboy is a free and open-source desktop notetaking application written for Unix-like (including Mac OS X and Linux) and Microsoft Windows operating systems, written in C# using Gtk#. Tomboy is part of the GNOME desktop environment personal information management software and achieved widespread popularity as the default note taking app in early Ubuntu releases. As Ubuntu changed over time and its cloud sync software Ubuntu One came and went, Tomboy inspired various forks and clones. Its interface is a notepad with a wiki-like linking system to connect notes together. Words in the note body that match extant note titles become hyperlinks automatically, making it simple to construct a personal wiki. For example, repeated references to favorite artists would automatically be highlighted in notes containing their names. As of release 1.6 it supports text entries and hyperlinks to the World Wide Web, but not graphic image linking or embedding.
A tomboy is a girl who behaves according to the gender role of a boy. The term may also refer to:
Tomboy is a 1985 comedy movie that stars Betsy Russell, and directed by Herb Freed.
Tomboy was a comic strip which originally appeared in Cor!! and also appeared in Buster.
The comic strip was about a girl who looked and acted like a boy, hence the name. The plots mainly centred on typical problems which young boys would possibly find themselves in, only the twist was that it centred on a girl and not a boy.
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Tomboy is a Japanese pop music duet made up of Sonim and Akane Osawa . The group debuted on November 17, 2007, and records on the Avex Trax label.
Tomboy's only recording is the 2007 single Superstar, a remake of the song of the same title released by the Korean pop music girl group Jewelry in 2005. It remained on the Japanese charts for five weeks, peaking at number 27. The Tomboy recording was chosen as the closing theme to the Japanese variety program Sukibara.
Tomboy is the fourth solo album by American experimental pop musician Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), released on April 4, 2011 as an online stream. Lennox mentioned Tomboy would be a departure from his signature sound on Person Pitch and Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion: "I got tired of the severe parameters of using samplers. Thinking about Nirvana and The White Stripes got me into the idea of doing something with a heavy focus on guitar and rhythm."
"Tomboy" is the lead single from Panda Bear's fourth album of the same name. It was released as a 7" by Paw Tracks on July 13, 2010, and later released digitally on July 20. "Tomboy" is the first in a series of singles planned from Panda Bear on different labels, all leading up to the release of Tomboy.
The track "Slow Motion" has been well received by Pitchfork Media and has tagged as 'Best New Music'. The song is also at number #60 in Pitchfork Media's Top 100 Tracks of 2010.
"Slow Motion" was later used in the Season 9 episode of CSI: Miami "Blood Sugar" aired December 12, 2010.
Tomboy is a 2011 French drama film written and directed by Céline Sciamma. The story follows a 10-year-old tomboy, Laure, who moves during the summer holiday with her family to a new neighborhood. At that time of life, when everything is still open, she experiments with her gender identity. The film opened to positive reviews, with critics praising the directing and the performers, particularly Zoé Héran as the lead.
Tomboy is an educational Canadian short animation film that debuted in 2009 on CBC. It is a 14 minute 2D animated video/movie that follows a day in the life of an elementary school Latina Canadian girl named Alex, as she maneuvers her way through the obstacles of being a gender neutral tomboy who wears unisex clothes and has short hair. This film explores issues of gender expression, bullying and diversity, bringing light to the issues that surround children, through the choices they make, and the emotional repercussions that follow. Tomboy is based on the book Are You a Boy or a Girl?, by author Karleen Pendleton Jiménez, which was a finalist for the 2001 Lambda Literary Awards.
Usage examples of "tomboy".
It reminds me of when I first crossed into the otherworld with Mumbo, when everything was still so marvelous and I was just a little tomboy of a girl, my ball-shaped companion rolling along at my side, propelling herself with her long spindly limbs.
He wondered if Billie would stay a tomboy long or if the pressure of society would force her to conform.
With her tall, slim figure and long, swirled-up hair, it was hard to believe that Gamay had been a tomboy, running with a gang of boys, building tree houses, playing baseball in the streets of Racine.
Maida and Zia, the neighborhood tomboys who claimed to live in the branches of the old elm tree behind the house.
We grew up together and went to art school at the same time, and Butchy was my best friend when we were both at the tomboy age.
Like every other tomboy, Idabel was mean, just gut-mean: the haircut man in Noon City sure had her number.
Just aft of where Tombstone and Tomboy were sitting--a fifty-yard-line seat if ever there was one, he thought--two lines of deck personnel were busily erecting the crash barricade, a horizontal ladder of wire and fabric strips designed to stop an aircraft that, for whatever reason, could not make a normal arrested landing.
But, except for the two neutered women, and the mountain tomboy with the two knives, none of them were anything like that.
So Teres was a tomboy far back as anyone ever noticed, and it amused Malchion to encourage her mimicry of himself and his companions.
Aunt Alexandra Finch, especially, accuses Atticus of letting the children run wild and encouraging Scout to turn into an incorrigible tomboy.
Anse knew that Noelle had grown up in West Virginia, but he had a strong suspicion she did not and never had shared any of Gaylynn's tomboy proclivities.