Citations:bosspot

English citations of bosspot

• 1981, The Listener - Volume 106, page 212:

  His mother may have been a censorious bosspot (she was certainly a fervent evangelical).

• 1981 June 30, Gavin Ewart, “Would mother like it?”, in The New Standard, page 15:

  Auden’s mother was a possessive, domineering bosspot; some people couldn’t stand her.

• 2002 September 23, Michele Hanson, “Dirty secrets”, in The Guardian, London, Manchester, page 9:

  But were the feminists any help, or just one more band of middle-class boss-pots? Their demands haven’t got us very far.

• 2012, Marie Joseph, Emma Sparrow:

  We'll have to live with Ricky's mum and dad, but they, the bosspots, they don't have to muck in, do they?