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bosser

bosser noun: a bossy person, one who orders others around.

Noun

bosser (plural bossers)

  1. (rare) A bossy person, one who orders others around.
    • They were all bossers here. Especially the women. They were bossy even when they deared her.1985, Gertrude Story, The Need of Wanting Always, page 160
  2. (UK, dialectal) A large marble in children's games.
    • […] the ultimate winner is the man with the greatest number of marbles when play comes to an end. The games at Battle at the present time are played with glass marbles and locally made “bossers” of concrete.1953, Arthur Beckett, The Sussex County Magazine, volume 27, page 60
    • Modern children, having only machine-made glass marbles, are restricted to names describing their size, or the names under which they are sold, or fanciful names of their own inventing. Thus big marbles are big 'uns, bossers, bulls or bullies[…]1997, Iona Archibald Opie, Peter Opie, Children's games with things, page 54
  3. An instrument used to push clay into a mold.

Forms of bosser

pluralbossers

Origin of bosser

From boss + -er?

Questions about bosser

What does bosser mean?
Bosser means a bossy person, one who orders others around.
What part of speech is bosser?
Bosser is a noun.
What is the plural of bosser?
The plural of bosser is bossers.

Words near bosser in the dictionary

  1. bosselation
  2. bosselations
  3. bossellated
  4. bossellation
  5. bossellations
  6. bosser
  7. Bosserman
  8. Bossermans
  9. bossers
  10. Bossert
  11. Bosserts

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