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bossy-boots

bossy-boots is the alternative form of bossyboots.

Meaning of bossyboots

Noun

bossyboots (plural bossyboots)

  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
    Synonyms:
    bossy pants

Forms of bossy-boots

pluralbossy-boots

Questions about bossy-boots

What is bossy-boots the alternative form of?
Bossy-boots is the alternative form of bossyboots.

Words near bossy-boots in the dictionary

  1. bossy
  2. bossy pants
  3. bossy r
  4. bossy r's
  5. bossy rs
  6. bossy-boots
  7. bossy-pants
  8. bossyboots
  9. bossypants
  10. Bossòst
  11. bost

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