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bossyboots en · NOUN

Etymology

From bossy + boots.

Meanings

  1. (informal) A 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:

Forms

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bossyboots Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

lazyboots

Synonyms

bossy pants

Translations (1)

es marimandón (bossy person)