bossyboots

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noun

A bossy person.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounbossyboots (plural bossyboots)
  1. informalA bossy person.

    Gertrude Stein, who might, in her time, have been considered a bit of a bossyboots herself, suggested that semicolons were simply commas with pretensions.

    2008, Jennifer DeVere Brody, Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play

    Synonyms: bossy pants

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA bossy person.

Origin

Translations

Spanish marimandón
  • marimandónbossy person
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APA

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Chicago

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