bossy : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: bossy	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for bossy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bossy 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" Synonym(s): autocratic, bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bossy \Boss"y\, a. Ornamented with bosses; studded.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bossy \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.]