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bossypants

bossypants 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 bossypants

pluralbossypants

Questions about bossypants

What is bossypants the alternative form of?
Bossypants is the alternative form of bossy pants.

Words near bossypants in the dictionary

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

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