bossy

Meanings

Adjective

• Tending to give orders to others, especially when unwarranted; domineering.
• Ornamented with bosses; studded.

Noun

• A cow or calf.

Related

Similar words

• dictatorial, authoritarian, commanding, tyrannical, demanding, inflexible

Origin

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