Bossy \Boss"y\, a.
Ornamented with bosses; studded.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.]
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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" [syn: autocratic, dominating,
high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory]
[also: bossiest, bossier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
107 Moby Thesaurus words for "bossy":
Brahman, Indian buffalo, Partlet, absolute, absolutist,
absolutistic, arbitrary, aristocratic, arrogant, aurochs,
authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic, beef, beef cattle,
beeves, biddy, bison, bitch, bold, bossed, bovine, bovine animal,
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, 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, 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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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