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bootstrappy

bootstrappy adjective: hard-working, self-reliant, and enterprising.

Adjective

bootstrappy (comparative more bootstrappy, superlative most bootstrappy)

  1. (informal) Hard-working, self-reliant, and enterprising.
    • Unwilling to accept the strictures of the Russian Orthodox Church, they demonstrated a very bootstrappy, can-do attitude by simply inventing their own religion from scratch.2011, Alina Simone, You Must Go and Win: Essays, pages 148–149
    • My mom nodded her approval. It was "very bootstrappy" to work late.2014, L. Alison Heller, The Never Never Sisters, unnumbered page

Forms of bootstrappy

comparativemore bootstrappy
superlativemost bootstrappy

Origin of bootstrappy

From the idiomatic phrase pull oneself up by one's bootstraps.

Questions about bootstrappy

What does bootstrappy mean?
Bootstrappy means hard-working, self-reliant, and enterprising.
What part of speech is bootstrappy?
Bootstrappy is an adjective.

Words near bootstrappy in the dictionary

  1. bootstrapped
  2. bootstrapper
  3. bootstrappers
  4. bootstrapping
  5. bootstrappings
  6. bootstrappy
  7. bootstraps
  8. bootstring
  9. bootstrings
  10. bootstripe
  11. bootstripes

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