bossy (redirected from Bossy(single))

boss·y ¹  (bôs, bs)

adj. boss·i·er, boss·i·est

Given to ordering others around; domineering.

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bossi·ly adv.

bossi·ness n.

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boss·y ²  (bôs, bs)

adj.

Decorated with raised ornaments.

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boss·y ³  (bôs, bs)

n. pl. boss·ies Informal

A cow or calf.

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[From boss.]

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bossy¹

adj bossier, bossiest

Informal domineering, overbearing, or authoritarian

bossily  adv

bossiness  n

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bossy²

adj

(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Furniture) (of furniture) ornamented with bosses

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

bossy - 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" autocratic, high-and-mighty, peremptory, magisterial, dominating domineering - tending to domineer

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bossy

adjective (Informal) domineering, lordly, arrogant, authoritarian, oppressive, hectoring, autocratic, dictatorial, coercive, imperious, overbearing, tyrannical, despotic, high-handed She remembers being a rather bossy little girl.

Translations

bossy [ˈbɒsɪ] ADJ (bossier (compar) (bossiest (superl))) [person] → mandón

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bossy [ˈbɒsi] adj [woman, teacher] → autoritaire
a bossy little girl
BUT une petite fille qui mène tout le monde à la baguette.

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bossy

adj (+er) → herrisch; don’t be bossy with me! → kommandier mich nicht so rum (inf); he tends to be rather bossy → er kommandiert einen gern rum (inf)

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bossy [ˈbɒsɪ] adj (person) → autoritario/a
don't you get bossy with me! → non cominciare a darmi ordini!

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bossy → دكتاتوري panovačný kommanderende herrisch αυταρχικός mandón komenteleva autoritaire sklon zapovijedanju autoritario 威張った 우두머리 노릇하는 bazig sjefete apodyktyczny mandão (ведущий себя) как командир dominerande ซึ่งสั่งให้ทำ buyurgan hách dịch 专横的