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bossy pants en · NOUN

Etymology

From bossy + -pants.

Meanings

1. (attributive, informal, sometimes) A pushy or domineering person.
   • 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:
   • "This is ridiculous!" she yells. "Go somewhere quiet!" "Hold on, bossy-pants." 2010, Sarah Mlynowski, Give Me a Call, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 104:
   • 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:

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