bossy pants

alternative bossy-pants · alternative bossypants

1. attributiveinformalsometimesA pushy or domineering person.

   "This is ridiculous!" she yells. "Go somewhere quiet!" "Hold on, bossy-pants."

   2010, Sarah Mlynowski, Give Me a Call, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 104

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   She is in many ways my Aunt Ethel come back to life. I was brought up with, precisely, hauntingly, that shrill, nagging, over-insistent way of speaking, that bossy-pants way of walking, that remorseless insistence on always being right.

   1992, Richard Hoggart, An Imagined Life: Life and Times, Volume III: 1959-91, Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 265

   She pulled off the paper and looked at what he'd bought her, what the horrid, arrogant, boot-burning, bossy pants had bought her.

   2006, Anne Grace, The Perfect Stranger, Berkley Sensation, →ISBN