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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power;
- Example: "an autocratic person"
- Example: "autocratic behavior"
- Example: "a bossy way of ordering others around"
- Example: "a rather aggressive and dominating character"
- Example: "managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way"
- Example: "a swaggering peremptory manner"
[syn: autocratic, bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

bossy
    adj 1: 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, bossy,
           dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial,
           peremptory]