| 单词 | bossy |
| 释义 | bossy (once / 15134 pages) adj Someone who's bossy has a tendency to order other people around. Your bossy friend might tell you what clothes you should wear on your date as well as which restaurant you ought to eat at. Bossy people enjoy telling you what to do. Your bossy roommate might instruct you to clean the kitchen immediately, and a bossy kid could happily spend an afternoon ordering his babysitter to push him on a swing. While the 16th century meaning was "swelling and rounded, decorated with buttons," by the late 1800s bossy meant "domineering," from the Dutch baas, or "master." It's also a popular name for a cow, from the Latin bos, "cow." WORD FAMILYbossy: bossier, bossiest, bossily+/boss: bossed, bosses, bossing, bossy, underboss/underboss: underbosses USAGE EXAMPLESOn the night of July 29, 2015, Leadon and Frey huddled together offstage in Bossier City, La., as the crowd cheered. Washington Post(Nov 28, 2016) There’s a bit of a jokester in her, and she can be a bit bossy. Seattle Times(Nov 30, 2016) The tide only ceased in 1980, when two abortion clinics opened a few months apart in nearby Bossier City and Shreveport. The Guardian(Nov 21, 2016) adj offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power a bossy way of ordering others around Syn autocratic, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory domineering tending to domineer |
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