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bossy pants

bossy pants noun: a pushy or domineering person.

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
    • She pulled off the paper and looked at what he'd bought her, what the horrid, arrogant, boot-burning, bossy pants had bought her.2006, Anne Grace, The Perfect Stranger, Berkley Sensation, →ISBN

Forms of bossy pants

pluralbossy pants
alternative formbossy-pants
alternative formbossypants

Origin of bossy pants

From bossy + -pants.

Questions about bossy pants

What does bossy pants mean?
Bossy pants means a pushy or domineering person.
What part of speech is bossy pants?
Bossy pants is a noun.
What is the plural of bossy pants?
The plural of bossy pants is bossy pants.

Words near bossy pants in the dictionary

  1. bosspots
  2. bossware
  3. bosswoman
  4. bosswomen
  5. bossy
  6. bossy pants
  7. bossy r
  8. bossy r's
  9. bossy rs
  10. bossy-boots
  11. bossy-pants

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