Bossy

Definition: Bossy

Bossy

Adjective

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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bossy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1663. (references)

Synonyms: Bossy

Convexity

Adjective: convex, prominent, protuberant, projecting; Verb: bossed, embossed, bossy, nodular, bunchy; clavate, clavated, claviform; hummocky, moutonne, mammiliform; papulous, papilose; hemispheric, bulbous; bowed, arched; bold; bellied; tuberous, tuberculous; tumous; cornute, odontoid; lentiform, lenticular; gibbous; club shaped, hubby, hubbly, knobby, papillose, saddle-shaped, selliform, subclavate, torose, ventricose, verrucose.

Crosswords: Bossy

Even when I'm a bossy, whiny pain-in-the-ass who drags you to apartments you can't afford and basically makes your life a living hell (Grapevine; writing credit: David Frankel)

Wow, You're so bossy and domineering (The Haunting; writing credit: David Self)

So, what do you think bossy and domineering (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)

The shrill voice, the bossy tone, the random hatred of all things that bounce (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Bossy Anna (Silver Blades Figure Eights, No 4) (reference)

• Bossy Kiki (The Puzzle Place) (reference)

• Bossy Steven (Sweet Valley Kids, No 18) (reference)

• Buckethead Bunch: Bossy, Loser, Show-Off and Angry (Buckethead Series) (reference)

• Franklin Is Bossy (Franklin Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• The Bossy Frog (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Beginning with "bossy": bossy-boots.

Albanian

urdhëronjës, mish (carcase, carcass, flesh, meat), ka (Bullock, neat, ox, there are, there is). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متسلط (authoritative, commanding, dominating, masterful), ‏مذهب (belief, doctrine, faith, gilded, gilt, ideology, school, teaching), ‏نزاع للسيطرة, ‏دكتاتوري (dictatorial, totalitarian). (various references)

Bulgarian 

крава (cow, neat), изпъкнал (bulging, bunchy, convex, eminent, goggle, outstanding, projecting, projective, prominent, protruding, protrusive, protuberant, salient, swelling), деспотичен (despotic, domineering, heavy-handed, masterful, peremptory, tyrannical). (various references)

Chinese 

独裁 (authoritarian, Autocratic, Autocratical, Autocratically). (various references)

Czech

pánovitý (bullying, domineering, hectoring, high handed, imperious, overbearing). (various references)

Dutch

bazig (masterful). (various references)

Esperanto

estrema (masterful). (various references)

Farsi 

متمایل به ریاست مابی , ارباب منش , دارای برجستگی . (various references)

French

autoritaire. (various references)

German

rechthaberische. (various references)

Greek 

αυταρχικόσ (autocratic, autocratical, despotic, imperious, magisterial, officious, overbearing, peremptory, self-assertive), αυταρχικός (domineering, imperious). (various references)

Hebrew 

שתלט� י (dominant, domineering, high and mighty, imperious, masterful, overbearing). (various references)

Hungarian

hatalmaskodó (domineering, masterful, overbearing), rendelkező természetű, parancsolgató, erőszakosan vezető, ellentmondást nem tűrő (assertive, dogmatic, imperative, imperatorial, magisterial, peremptory, self-assertive), önkényeskedő (despotic). (various references)

Indonesian

sok raja. (various references)

Italian

prepotente (bully, high handed, overbearing, overpowering), autoritario (authoritarian, authoritative, masterful). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

親分肌の人 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おやぶ�"は� のひと. (various references)

Manx

mainshtyragh (domineering, master), chiarnyssagh (authoritative, dominating, seigniorial). (various references)

Pig Latin

ossybay.(various references)

Portuguese

mandão (bully, cock-a-doodle-doo), dominante (authoritative, commanding, dictatorial, dominant, prepotent, prevailing, prevalent, ruling), cheio de autoridade, autoritário (authoritarian, commanding, dictatorial, dog-cheap, domineering, emphatic, magisterial, masterful, overbearing, peremptory, self-assertive). (various references)

Russian 

распоряжающийся всем, корова (cow, neat), властный (autocratic, autocratical, dictatorial, domineering, high handed, high-handed, imperious, masterful, overbearing), мясо (butcher's meat, flesh, meat). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zapovednički (commanding, domineering, imperious, magisterial, masterful, overbearing, possessive). (various references)

Spanish

mandón (domineering, managing). (various references)

Swedish

dominerande (ascendant, dominant, dominating, domineering, masterful, overbearing, paramount, predominant, predominantly). (various references)

Thai

ซึ่งสั่งให้ทำ. (various references)

Turkish

sert (acrid, adamant, astringent, austere, bad, bitter, boisterous, brisk, brutal, cast iron, crusty, cutting, drastic, exact, exacting, fierce, firm, flinty, forbidding, get-tough, granitic, grim, gruff, gusty, hard, hard and fast, hard bitten, hard line, hard set, hardening, hard-hitting, harsh, heady, heavy, heavy-handed, hot, ill natured, inclement, incompressible, inelastic, intemperate, iron, ironclad, keen, nappy, pointed, pungent, rigid, rigorous, rough, round, sclerous, severe, sharp, sharp-set, short, short-spoken, shrewd, smart, solid, sound, spanking, spartan, spiky, stand up, starched, starchy, stark, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, strong, surly, tart, tough, unbending, ungentle, unkind, unrelenting, unshaded, unyielding, vehement, violent), sözü geçen (above, ditto, influential, mentioned), otoriter (authoritarian, authoritative, domineering, imperious, strict). (various references)

Ukrainian

корова (cow, neat), м'ясо (beef, flesh, meat). (various references)

Vietnamese 

có bướu l�"i ra. (various references)

Misspellings

"Bossy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bassy, Baussy, Bessay, Bessey, bessy, Biosyn, bissi, bissy, bizzy, bobsy, Boissy, Bolsay, Bomsztyk, boosy, bootsy, bopsy, Boscq, bossa, bosse, Bossey, bossi, Bosso, bosss, bossu, botsi, botsy, Boussa, Boussey, Boysie, Bozzi, Bozzie, Bozzy, brosys, bsos, bss, Bussi, bussy, dossy, gossy, lossy, ossy, tossy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: boss, boys, sobs, soys, sybo, yobs.

-2 letters: bos, boy, bys, sob, sos, soy, yob.

-3 letters: bo, by, os, oy, so, yo.

+1 letter: syboes.

+2 letters: bossily, busboys, symbols.

+3 letters: bioassay, biolyses, biolysis, blossomy, bobstays, bogyisms, disobeys, kyboshes, newsboys, possibly, postboys, rosebays, sabayons, shopboys, skyboxes, slyboots, soybeans, symbions, symbiots.

+4 letters: bioassays, bodysuits, bodysurfs, boyarisms, busyworks, hobbyists, houseboys, lobbyisms, lobbyists, myoblasts, sonobuoys, symbionts, symbioses, symbiosis, symbiotes, symbolise, symbolism, symbolist.

+5 letters: bioassayed, biophysics, blastocyst, bootlessly, botrytises, boyishness, busybodies, byssinoses, byssinosis, disobeyers, hypoblasts, impossibly, ostensibly, presbyopes, scabrously, schoolboys, seasonably, snobbishly, storybooks, stylebooks, stylobates, subsociety, supposably, symbolised, symbolises, symbolisms, symbolists, symbolizes.