bossy Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power
    magisterial; peremptory; dominating; high-and-mighty; autocratic.
    • 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

WordNet

Boss"y adjective
Definitions
  1. Ornamented with bosses; studded.
Bos"sy noun
Etymology
Dim. fr. Prov. E. boss in boss-calf, buss-calf, for boose-calf, prop., a calf kept in the stall. See 1st Boose.
Definitions
  1. A cow or calf; -- familiarly so called. U. S.

Webster 1913