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Hardly the shrinking violet type
Answer for the clue "Hardly the shrinking violet type ", 5 letters:
bossy
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Word definitions for bossy in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, "swelling, projecting and rounded, decorated with bosses" from boss (n.2). Meaning "domineering, fond of ordering people about" is recorded 1882, from boss (n.1) + -y (2). As a common cow name it represents Latin bos "cow" (see cow (n.)).
Usage examples of bossy.
I would return Bossy to her home territory and look in the traveling trunk or any other place where I might find letters or diaries to take to Tommy tomorrow.
On the counter behind her the cat, Bossy, was sitting patiently, but as soon as the cat saw me she jumped down, meowed a greeting and twined herself around my ankles, curled herself about my legs.
He was the person who had fallen down the stairs on my first visit to the basement next door, the guy I had seen in the yard talking to Bossy and had seen later limping along the street.
I looked away, down at Bossy, who was still winding herself about my legs.
I told him about following Bossy into the basement of 3O5 and how I had heard him come down the stairs and berate the cat.
I went down to the basement, making sure Bossy was shut in the kitchen and could not follow me.
And then, if Bossy was a ghost, so was the man I had met recently and was in danger of falling in love with.
I longed to find him living in the house as the new owner with Bossy the cat.
When I took Bossy over to her she told me you were in a bad way, mentally disturbed, suffered from hallucination, believed poltergeists visited her living room one night.
At that moment I heard a sort of growling meow and felt the familiar furry shape of Bossy slither round my legs.
Opening my eyes I found Bossy sitting on me, eyes half closed with pleasure as her paws dug into my sweat shirt.
He said, too, that you are too clever by far and that bossy women are not his cup of tea.
Renunciates are either plucked chickens who cannot make up their minds, or bossy roosters in skirts.
And, likely, he still thinks of her as the bossy girl he knew when he was a young man.
He had had enough encounters with such persons over the years to know that they could be very bossy, petty tyrants.