Crossword clues for bossy
bossy
- Stereotypical cow's name
- Stereotypical animal name
- Prone to giving orders
- Popular cow name
- Mike of the Stanley Cup-winning New York Islanders
- Likely to make stern orders
- Like someone who gives orders to other people
- Like someone who enjoys giving orders
- Like some band leaders
- Like many a take-charge type
- Like domineering leader
- Like an overbearing big sister or brother
- Like a wimp's spouse, often
- Like a milquetoast's spouse, often
- Insistent on getting one's own way
- Holstein handle
- Giving too many orders
- Giving demanding orders
- Given to micromanaging
- Given to giving orders
- Fond of pushing others around
- Fond of ordering others around
- Domineering or pushy
- Demanding that people do this and do that
- Common cow moniker
- Classic cow name
- Barnyard name
- Apt to push others around
- Always telling people what to do
- Acting too pushy
- Acting imperiously
- Imperious
- Domineering on the job
- Heifer's handle
- Not like a milquetoast
- Jersey girl?
- Dictatorial
- Hardly the shrinking violet type
- Like Lucy of "Peanuts"
- High-handed
- Giving orders
- Overly assertive
- Officious
- Bovine nickname
- Controlling
- Overbearing, informally
- Too commanding
- Disagreeably domineering
- Overly demanding
- Insisting on one's way
- Given to ordering people about
- Prone to telling others what to do
- Overly controlling
- Name for a cow
- Like someone who orders people around
- Like older siblings, often
- Too pushy
- Too demanding
- Too controlling
- Tending toward micromanagement
- Tending to order people around
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bossy \Boss"y\, a. Ornamented with bosses; studded.
Bossy \Bos"sy\, 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. [U. S.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 a. Tending to give orders to others, especially when unwarranted; domineering. Etymology 2
n. (context US informal dated English) A cow or calf. Etymology 3
a. Ornamented with bosses; studded.
WordNet
adj. offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power; "an autocratic person"; "autocratic behavior"; "a bossy way of ordering others around"; "a rather aggressive and dominating character"; "managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way"; "a swaggering peremptory manner" [syn: autocratic, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory]
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
"Bossy" is a song by American R&B singer Kelis, featuring American rapper Too Short. It was released in the United States in January 2006 as the lead single from Kelis' fourth studio album, Kelis Was Here (2006). The song peaked at number 16 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, making it the singer's second biggest Hot 100 hit thus far, as well as Too Short's first top 40 hit. While "Bossy" entered the top ten in Finland and the top 20 in Australia and New Zealand, it failed to chart or sell noticeably elsewhere. The song features an Roland 808 drum machine.
On December 11, 2006, "Bossy" was certified double platinum by the RIAA.
The Redsoul 8055y remix was part of the runway soundtrack of the 2006 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.
The song was featured on the 30 Rock episode " The Aftermath". It was featured on The O.C. in the episode " The Graduates".
It was also featured in the very popular Ultra Music compilation Ultra.Dance 08, part of the record label's Ultra.Dance series.
"Bossy" is a song by American actress and singer-songwriter Lindsay Lohan. The song was written and produced by Shaffer Smith, known by his stage name Ne-Yo, while additional writing and production was done by Stargate members Mikkel Storleer Eriksen and Tor Erik Hermansen. After leaking online in the beginning of May 2008, Universal Motown officially released the song to media outlets, while its digital single was released on May 27, 2008. The song is influenced by electropop and dance-pop. Lyrically, it is about a woman being strong enough to get what she wants when she wants it.
Critically, "Bossy" attained generally mixed reception upon release, many music critics generally praised the attitude of the song, but considered the song less catchy than Lohan's previous efforts. Commercially, "Bossy" managed to peak at number 77 on the Canadian Hot 100, and became Lohan's first song from her entire music career, so far, to reach number one on the United States' Billboard Hot Dance Club Play.
Bossy may refer to:
- Fabien Bossy, French football defender.
- John Bossy, British historian
- Maurice Bossy, Canadian politician
- Mike Bossy, Canadian ice hockey player
- Raoul Bossy, Romanian diplomat
- "Bossy" (Kelis song)
- "Bossy" (Lindsay Lohan song)
- Bossy (Neighbours), a fictional dog from the Australian soap opera Neighbours
- Little Miss Bossy, a book
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.