Meaning of BOSSY
| Pronunciation: | | 'bâsee
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| | Definition: | | [adj] offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power; "an autocratic person"; "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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| | Synonyms: | | autocratic, dominating, domineering, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory |
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\Boss"y\, a.
Ornamented with bosses; studded.
\Bos"sy\, n. [Dim. fr. Prov. E. boss in boss-calf,
buss-calf, for boose-calf, prop., a calf kept in the stall.
See 1st {Boose}.]
A cow or calf; -- familiarly so called. [U. S.]
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| | Related Terms: | | absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, arbitrary, aristocratic, arrogant, aurochs, authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic, beef, beef cattle, beeves, biddy, bison, bitch, bold, bossed, bovine, bovine animal, Brahman, brood mare, buffalo, bull, bullock, calf, carabao, cattle, chased, cow, critter, dairy cattle, dairy cow, despotic, dictatorial, doe, dogie, domineering, embossed, ewe, ewe lamb, feudal, filly, grinding, guinea hen, gyp, heifer, hen, high-handed, hind, hornless cow, imperative, imperial, imperious, in relief, Indian buffalo, jenny, kine, leppy, lioness, lordly, magisterial, magistral, mare, masterful, maverick, milch cow, milcher, milk cow, milker, monocratic, muley cow, muley head, musk-ox, nanny, nanny goat, neat, oppressive, overbearing, overruling, ox, oxen, Partlet, peahen, peremptory, raised, repressive, roe, severe, she-bear, she-goat, she-lion, slut, sow, steer, stirk, stot, strict, suppressive, tigress, tyrannical, tyrannous, vixen, wisent, yak, yearling, zebu |
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