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Etymology

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From bossy +‎ boots.

Noun

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bossyboots (plural bossyboots)

  1. (informal) A bossy person.
    Synonym: bossy pants
    • 2008, Jennifer DeVere Brody, Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play:
      Gertrude Stein, who might, in her time, have been considered a bit of a bossyboots herself, suggested that semicolons were simply commas with pretensions.

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