bossy

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Tending to give orders to others, especially when unwarranted; domineering.

   Over in the wardrobe department a bossy woman in ill-fitting dungarees tried to talk her into wearing a short red low-cut dress for the test.

2. 2
   noun

   A cow or calf.

   A week before, while riding the prairies, Raidler had come upon a sick and weakling calf deserted and bawling. Without dismounting he had reached and slung the distressed bossy across his saddle, and dropped it at the ranch for the boys to attend to.

3. 3
   adj

   offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power

4. 4
   adj

   Ornamented with bosses; studded.

Etymology

Diminutive of dialectal English boss + -y, as used in the term boss-calf (which, like buss-calf, is a variant form of boose-calf, a calf kept in a boose (“stall”)).