BOSSY meaning: Domineering in manner; overly authoritative

We found 33 dictionaries that define the word bossy:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

bossy: Merriam-Webster
bossy, bossy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
bossy, bossy, bossy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
bossy: Collins English Dictionary
bossy: Vocabulary.com
Bossy, bossy: Wordnik
bossy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
bossy: Wiktionary
bossy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
bossy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
bossy: Infoplease Dictionary
Bossy, bossy: Dictionary.com
bossy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Bossy (Kelis song), Bossy (Lindsay Lohan song), Bossy (Neighbours): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Bossy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
bossy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
bossy: Rhymezone
bossy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
bossy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
BOSSY: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
bossy: FreeDictionary.org
bossy: Mnemonic Dictionary
bossy: TheFreeDictionary.com
Bossy: World Wide Words
bossy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

bossy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

Bossy(single), bossy: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

BOSSY: Acronym Finder
bossy: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

bossy, bossy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
bossy: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective:  Tending to give orders to others, especially when unwarranted; domineering.
▸ noun:  (US, informal, dated) A cow or calf.
▸ adjective:  Ornamented with bosses; studded.