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bossy-pants

bossy-pants is the alternative form of bossy pants.

Meaning of bossy pants

Noun

bossy pants (plural bossy pants)

  1. (attributive, informal, sometimes) A pushy or domineering person.
    • She is in many ways my Aunt Ethel come back to life. I was brought up with, precisely, hauntingly, that shrill, nagging, over-insistent way of speaking, that bossy-pants way of walking, that remorseless insistence on always being right.1992, Richard Hoggart, An Imagined Life: Life and Times, Volume III: 1959-91, Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 265

Forms of bossy-pants

pluralbossy-pants

Questions about bossy-pants

What is bossy-pants the alternative form of?
Bossy-pants is the alternative form of bossy pants.

Words near bossy-pants in the dictionary

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

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