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Bossy   /bˈɔsi/   Listen
Bossy

adjective
1.
Offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power.  Synonyms: autocratic, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory.  "Autocratic behavior" , "A bossy way of ordering others around" , "A rather aggressive and dominating character" , "Managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way" , "A swaggering peremptory manner"






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"Bossy" Quotes from Famous Books



... much comforted. She crept forlornly along towards home. Joe West's house was on the way. There was a field south of it. As she came to this field she saw Joe out there with the bossy. This bossy, which was tethered to an old apple-tree, was cream-colored, with a white star on her forehead and a neck and head like a deer. She stood knee-deep in the daisies and clover, and looked like a regular picture-calf. If Sarah Jane had not been ...
— Young Lucretia and Other Stories • Mary E. Wilkins

... against his breast, and looking intently, as if fascinated, at his square firm chin so very near her eyes. She had never observed it so near at hand before. She thought it was a lovely chin,—in another man she would have called it distinctly "bossy." ...
— Prudence Says So • Ethel Hueston



Words linked to "Bossy" :   boss, domineering



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