bossy
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2.6
- adjective
- /ˈbɔsi/
- Informal
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mandón
- His bossy attitude makes it hard for others to share their ideas in meetings.
Like I just, I feel like I'm quite bossy and I'm not in the bedroom.
- Like I just, I feel like I'm quite bossy and I'm not in the bedroom.
- Let's head into this new year strong and bossy AF.
- And I was serving some awful customers that were really bossy.
- So I always wanted to be seen and loud and a bit bossy.
- I mean, my sister was very bossy.
- And then if a woman is in this, holds this exact same office, people think she's bossy.
- Yeah, just hated how I just tried to, you know, be so bossy about what colors had to be, but certain things you can't get around.
- Untreated, we can be bossy, we can be cruel and we can be overly sensitive, a bit more treated.
- And they said, we want you to get to be the guy who's you're the guy selling instruments at the store who says too much, you're too pushy, you're too bossy.
- They were seeing her anger as bossy and unbecoming.
- But why can't you just be, like, fat and bossy like Oprah, dude?
- We'll do like any more bossy than that.
- So, you know, the cop, the preacher, the prostitute, right, the bossy wife.
Examples
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Sister Patterson is overbearing, bossy, and often rude to the men who profess to love or admire her daughter.
Academic text (2013) -
You're so bossy and domineering.
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And what I hate about the word bossy is that bossy is a label.
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I decided and just said to Mark, let's do this because I'm bossy like that.
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But Mandy was bossy, giving orders almost as often as she drew breath.
Fiction book (1998) -
Stop being so bossy.
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Mashi's manner might even be considered bossy in Lily's school.
Fiction book (1994) -
According to his father, Arthur, 10-year-old Doug is much too bossy in groups to get along smoothly with other children.
Academic text (1995) -
In 2013, Sheryl Sandberg exhorted women to ignore the childhood teases of being bossy girls and to lean into leadership.
Academic text (2015) -
She always tells everyone what to do, and that's why people think she's bossy.
Synonyms
75
5.0
Being rude and trying too hard to make people do what you want
30
5.8
Being proud and trying to control other people
16
7.7
Having complete control and expecting people to obey without question
14
8.0
A leader who has complete power and does not allow others to disagree
12
7.4
Trying to control other people and not listening to their ideas
Antonyms
How Bossy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bossy comes from the word boss, which originally came from the Dutch word baas meaning 'master'. So bossy describes someone who acts like a 'boss' by telling people what to do, often in a pushy way.