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say it: BAW-see
bossy is an adjective meaning "offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power". It carries one recorded sense.
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bossy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.