Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bossy"
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.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bossy \Boss"y\, a.
Ornamented with bosses; studded.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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" [syn: {autocratic}, {dominating},
{high-and-mighty}, {magisterial}, {peremptory}]
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