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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective bossy has 1 sense
- bossy(s = adj.all) autocratic, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory - offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power; "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" Derived form noun boss1
CIDE DICTIONARY
bossy, a.
Ornamented with bosses; studded. [1913 Webster]
bossy, n. [Dim. fr. Prov. E. boss in boss-calf, buss-calf, for boose-calf, prop., a calf kept in the stall. See 1st Boose.].
A cow or calf; -- familiarly so called. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
bossy, adj. (bossier, bossiest) colloq. domineering; tending to boss.
Idiom
bossy-boots colloq. a domineering person.
Derivative
bossily adv. bossiness n.
THESAURUS
bossy
Brahman, Indian buffalo, Partlet, absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, arbitrary, aristocratic, arrogant, aurochs, authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic, beef, beef cattle, beeves, biddy, bison, bitch, bold, bossed, bovine, bovine animal, brood mare, buffalo, bull, bullock, calf, carabao, cattle, chased, cow, critter, dairy cattle, dairy cow, despotic, dictatorial, doe, dogie, domineering, embossed, ewe, ewe lamb, feudal, filly, grinding, guinea hen, gyp, heifer, hen, high-handed, hind, hornless cow, imperative, imperial, imperious, in relief, jenny, kine, leppy, lioness, lordly, magisterial, magistral, mare, masterful, maverick, milch cow, milcher, milk cow, milker, monocratic, muley cow, muley head, musk-ox, nanny, nanny goat, neat, oppressive, overbearing, overruling, ox, oxen, peahen, peremptory, raised, repressive, roe, severe, she-bear, she-goat, she-lion, slut, sow, steer, stirk, stot, strict, suppressive, tigress, tyrannical, tyrannous, vixen, wisent, yak, yearling, zebuROGET THESAURUS
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Convexity
N convexity, prominence, projection, swelling, gibbosity, bilge, bulge, protuberance, protrusion, camber, cahot, thank-ye-ma'am, swell, intumescence, tumour, tumor, tubercle, tuberosity, excrescence, hump, hunch, bunch, boss, embossment, hub, hubble, tooth, knob, elbow, process, apophysis, condyle, bulb, node, nodule, nodosity, tongue, dorsum, bump, clump, sugar loaf, bow, mamelon, molar, belly, corporation, pot belly, gut, withers, back, shoulder, lip, flange, pimple, zit, wen, wheel, papula, pustule, pock, proud flesh, growth, sarcoma, caruncle, corn, wart, pappiloma, furuncle, polypus, fungus, fungosity, exostosis, bleb, blister, blain, boil, airbubble, blob, papule, verruca, papilla, nipple, teat, tit, titty, boob, knocker, pap, breast, dug, mammilla, proboscis, nose, neb, beak, snout, nozzle, schnoz, peg, button, stud, ridge, rib, jutty, trunnion, snag, cupola, dome, arch, balcony, eaves, pilaster, relief, relievo, cameo, bassorilievo, mezzorilevo, altorivievo, low relief, bas relief, high relief, hill, cape, promontory, mull, forehead, foreland, point of land, mole, jetty, hummock, ledge, spur, naze, ness, convex, prominent, protuberant, projecting, bossed, embossed, bossy, nodular, bunchy, clavate, clavated, claviform, hummocky, moutonne, mammiliform, papulous, papilose, hemispheric, bulbous, bowed, arched, bold, bellied, tuberous, tuberculous, tumous, cornute, odontoid, lentiform, lenticular, gibbous, club shaped, hubby, hubbly, knobby, papillose, saddle-shaped, selliform, subclavate, torose, ventricose, verrucose, salient, in relief, raised, repousse, bloated, (expanded).
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