bossy

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: boss=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

bossy, a. 

 Ornamented with bosses; studded.  [1913 Webster]

bossy, n. [Dim. fr. Prov. E. boss in boss-calf, buss-calf, for boose-calf, prop., a calf kept in the stall. See 1st Boose.].

 A cow or calf; -- familiarly so called.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

bossy, adj. (bossier, bossiest) colloq. domineering; tending to boss.

Idiom

bossy-boots colloq. a domineering person.

Derivative

bossily adv. bossiness n.

THESAURUS

bossy

Brahman, Indian buffalo, Partlet, absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, arbitrary, aristocratic, arrogant, aurochs, authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic, beef, beef cattle, beeves, biddy, bison, bitch, bold, bossed, bovine, bovine animal, brood mare, buffalo, bull, bullock, calf, carabao, cattle, chased, cow, critter, dairy cattle, dairy cow, despotic, dictatorial, doe, dogie, domineering, embossed, ewe, ewe lamb, feudal, filly, grinding, guinea hen, gyp, heifer, hen, high-handed, hind, hornless cow, imperative, imperial, imperious, in relief, jenny, kine, leppy, lioness, lordly, magisterial, magistral, mare, masterful, maverick, milch cow, milcher, milk cow, milker, monocratic, muley cow, muley head, musk-ox, nanny, nanny goat, neat, oppressive, overbearing, overruling, ox, oxen, peahen, peremptory, raised, repressive, roe, severe, she-bear, she-goat, she-lion, slut, sow, steer, stirk, stot, strict, suppressive, tigress, tyrannical, tyrannous, vixen, wisent, yak, yearling, zebu

ROGET THESAURUS

bossy

Convexity

N convexity, prominence, projection, swelling, gibbosity, bilge, bulge, protuberance, protrusion, camber, cahot, thank-ye-ma'am, swell, intumescence, tumour, tumor, tubercle, tuberosity, excrescence, hump, hunch, bunch, boss, embossment, hub, hubble, tooth, knob, elbow, process, apophysis, condyle, bulb, node, nodule, nodosity, tongue, dorsum, bump, clump, sugar loaf, bow, mamelon, molar, belly, corporation, pot belly, gut, withers, back, shoulder, lip, flange, pimple, zit, wen, wheel, papula, pustule, pock, proud flesh, growth, sarcoma, caruncle, corn, wart, pappiloma, furuncle, polypus, fungus, fungosity, exostosis, bleb, blister, blain, boil, airbubble, blob, papule, verruca, papilla, nipple, teat, tit, titty, boob, knocker, pap, breast, dug, mammilla, proboscis, nose, neb, beak, snout, nozzle, schnoz, peg, button, stud, ridge, rib, jutty, trunnion, snag, cupola, dome, arch, balcony, eaves, pilaster, relief, relievo, cameo, bassorilievo, mezzorilevo, altorivievo, low relief, bas relief, high relief, hill, cape, promontory, mull, forehead, foreland, point of land, mole, jetty, hummock, ledge, spur, naze, ness, convex, prominent, protuberant, projecting, bossed, embossed, bossy, nodular, bunchy, clavate, clavated, claviform, hummocky, moutonne, mammiliform, papulous, papilose, hemispheric, bulbous, bowed, arched, bold, bellied, tuberous, tuberculous, tumous, cornute, odontoid, lentiform, lenticular, gibbous, club shaped, hubby, hubbly, knobby, papillose, saddle-shaped, selliform, subclavate, torose, ventricose, verrucose, salient, in relief, raised, repousse, bloated, (expanded).