Boss vs Lord - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between boss and lord

is that boss is to exercise authoritative control over; to lord over; to boss around; to tell (someone) what to do, often repeatedly while lord is to invest with the dignity, power, and privileges of a lord.

In obsolete terms the difference between boss and lord

is that boss is a hassock or small seat, especially made from a bundle of straw while lord is the owner of a house, piece of land, or other possession.

As an adjective boss

is of excellent quality, first-rate.

As a proper noun Lord is

the God of Abraham and the Jewish scriptures, God the Father; the Godhead.

As an interjection Lord is

An interjection variously expressing astonishment, surprise, resignation.

boss
English

Etymology 1
From (etyl) bos, bose, boce, from (etyl) .
Noun
(es)
A swelling, lump or protuberance in an animal, person or object.

(geology) A lump-like mass of rock, especially one projecting through a stratum of different rock.

A convex protuberance in hammered work, especially the rounded projection in the centre of a shield.

(mechanics) A protrusion, frequently a cylinder of material that extends beyond a hole.

(architecture) A knob or projection, usually at the intersection of ribs in a vault.

(archery) the target block, made of foam but historically made of hay bales, to which a target face is attached.

A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder.

(Gwilt)

A head or reservoir of water.

Derived terms
* bossless * bosslike * emboss
Verb
(es)
To decorate with bosses; to emboss.

Etymology 2
Apparently a corruption of (bass).
Noun
(es)
(obsolete) A hassock or small seat, especially made from a bundle of straw.

* 1916 , , Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, 36:

All were waiting : uncle Charles, who sat far away in the shadow of the window, Dante and Mr Casey, who sat in the easy chairs at either side of the hearth, Stephen, seated on a chair between them, his feet resting on a toasting boss .

Synonyms
* (hassock or footrest): footrest, hassock
Etymology 3
From (etyl) baas, from (etyl) . Originally a term of respect used to address an older relative, later, in , it began to mean a person in charge who is not a master.
Noun
(es)
A person who oversees and directs the work of others; a supervisor.

A person in charge of a business or company.

Chat turned to whisper when the boss entered the conference room.

My boss complains that I'm always late to work.

A leader, the head of an organized group or team.

They named him boss because he had good leadership skills.

The head of a political party in a given region or district.

He is the Republican boss in Kentucky.

(informal) A term of address to a man.

Yes, boss .

(video games) An enemy, often at the end of a level, that is particularly challenging and must be beaten in order to progress.

(humorous) Wife.

There's no olive oil, will sunflower oil do? — I'll have to run that by the boss .

Synonyms
* (person in charge of a business or company): employer * (person who oversees and directs the work of others): line manager, manager, supervisor * (leader of an organized group or team): head, leader * (head of a political party in a given region or district): leader * : gov/guv (UK), guvnor (UK), mate (UK) * See also
Derived terms
* boss battle * boss fight * miniboss * final boss * show someone who's boss * you're the boss
Verb
(es)
To exercise authoritative control over; to lord over; to boss around; to tell (someone) what to do, often repeatedly.

* 1931 , Robert L. May, Rudolph'', ''The Red-Nosed Reindeer , Montgomery Ward (publisher):

By YOU last night’s journey was actually bossed / Without you, I’m certain, we’d all have been lost.

* 1932 , Lorine Pruette, The Parent and the Happy Child , page 76

His sisters bossed him and spoiled him. All their lives he was to go on being their little brother, who could do no wrong, because he was the baby; [...]

* 1967 , Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, The purloined paperweight , page 90

She bossed him, and he's never gotten over it. She still orders him around, and instead of telling her to go soak her head, he just says 'Yes, ma'am' as weak as a newborn jellyfish [...]

* 1980 , Jean Toomer The wayward and the seeking: a collection of writings by Jean Toomer , page 40

For if, on the one hand, I bossed him and showed him what to do and how to do it, [...]

Derived terms
* boss about, boss around
Adjective
(-)
(slang, American, Liverpool) Of excellent quality, first-rate.

''Don't you think surfing's boss ?

Anagrams
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lord
English
(Lord)
Noun
(en noun)
(label) The master of the servants of a household; (label) the master of a feudal manor

*c. 950 , (Lindisfarne Gospels), Matt. xxiv. 46

*:Eadig ðe]] ðone miððy cymes hlaferd his on-fand sua [[doing, doende.

*1611 , (King James Bible), Matt. xxiv. 46

*:Ble??ed]] is that finde [[so, ?o doing.

*1600 , (William Shakespeare), , iii. ii. 167 ff.

*:Por . ...But now, I was the Lord

*:of this faire man?ion]], of my [[servants, ?eruants,

*:Queene]] oer [[myself, my ?elfe...

*1794 , E. Christian in (William Blackstone), (Commentaries on the Laws of England) , II. 418

*:Lords of manors are distinguished from other land-owners with regard to the game.

#(label) The male head of a household, a father or husband.

#*831 , charter in Henry Sweet, The oldest English texts , 445

#*:Ymbe ðet lond et cert ðe hire eðelmod hire hlabard salde.

#*1594 , (William Shakespeare), "(The Rape of Lucrece)"

#*:...thou worthie Lord ,

#*:Of that vnworthie]] wife that [[greets, greeteth thee

#*c. 1591 , (William Shakespeare), (The Taming of the Shrew) (1623), v. ii. 131 f.

#*:Pet. Katherine , I charge thee, tell the?e]] [[head-strong, head-?trong women,

#*:What dutie]] they doe owe their Lords and [[husbands, hu?bands!

#*1611 , (King James Bible), Gen. xviii. 12

#*:Therefore Sarah laughed within her ?elfe]], , my lord being old [[also, al?o?

#*1816 , (Jane Austen), , III. xvi. 300

#*:Yes, here I am, my good friend; and here I have been so long, that anywhere else I should think it necessary to apologise; but, the truth is, that I am waiting for my lord and master.

#(label) The owner of a house, piece of land, or other possession

#*ante'' 1300 , ''Cursor Mundi , 601 f.

#*:Als]] oure lauerd has [[heaven, heuen in hand

#*:Sua]] [[should, suld man be lauerd of land.

#*1480 , Waterford Archives in the 10th Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts (1885), App. v. 316

#*:All suche lordes as have gutters betuxte]] [[their, thar houses.

#*ante'' 1637 , (Ben Jonson), ''Sad Shepherd , ii. i. 36

#*:A mightie Lord of Swine!

#*1697 , (John Dryden) translating (Publius Virgilius Maro)'s Æneis , xii

#*:Turnus...

#*:Wrench'd from his feeble hold the shining Sword;

#*:And plung'd it in the Bosom of its Lord .

#*1874 , J. H. Collins, Principles of Metal Mining (1875), Gloss. 139/2

#*:Lord''''', the owner of the land in which a mine is situated is called the ‘' lord ’.

One possessing similar mastery over others; (label) any feudal superior generally; any nobleman or aristocrat; any chief, prince, or sovereign ruler

*c. 893 , Orosius's History , i. i. §13

*:Ohthere sæde his hlaforde , Ælfrede cyninge, þæt...

* 1530 , John Palsgrave, Lesclarcissement , 680/1

It is a pytuouse]] case... whan subjectes rebell [[against, agaynst their naturall lorde .

* 1667 , (John Milton), (Paradise Lost) , xii. 70

Man over men He made not Lord .

# (label) A feudal tenant holding his manor directly of the king

# A peer of the realm, particularly a temporal one

#* ante 1375 , William of Palerne (1867), l.4539

To fare out as fast with his fader to speke, & with lordesse of þat]] [[land, lond.

#* ante'' 1420 , T. Hoccleve, ''De Regimine Principum , 442

Men myghten lordis knowe

By there]] arraye, from [[other, oþir folke.

#* 1453 , Rolls of Parliament, V. 266/2

If such persone bee of the estate of a Lord , as Duc]], Marques, Erle, Viscount or [[baron, Baron.

#* 1597 , (William Shakespeare), (The life and death of King Richard the Second) , iv.i.18

Princes, and noble Lords :

What an?wer]] I make to this [[base, ba?e man?

#* 1614 , J. Selden, Titles of Honor , 59

Our English name Lord , whereby we and the Scots stile]] all such as are of the Greater [[nobility, Nobilitie i. Barons, as also Bishops.

#* 1900 July 21, Daily Express , 5/7

The Englishman of to-day still dearly loves a lord .

# A baron or lesser nobleman, as opposed to greater ones

#* 1526 , W. Bonde, Pylgrimage of Perfection , i. sig. Bviiiv

Farre]] excellyng the state of lordes , erles, dukes or [[kings, kynges.

#* 1826 , (Benjamin Disraeli), Vivian Grey , II. iii. iii. 26

The Marquess played off the two Lords and the Baronet against his former friend.

One possessing similar mastery in figurative senses (esp. as lord of ~)

* ante'' 1300 , ''Cursor Mundi , 782

O wityng bath]] [[good, god and ill ?ee suld be lauerds at ?our will.

* 1398 , John Trevisa translating Bartholomew de Glanville's De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495), viii. xvi. 322

The sonne]] is the lorde of [[planets, planetes.

1697 , (John Dryden) translating (Publius Virgilius Maro) as (Georgics) , iii

Love is Lord of all.

* 1992 November 18, (Larry David), (Seinfeld) , 4.11: "(The Contest)":

But are you still master of your domain?

I am king of the county. You?

Lord of the manor.

# The magnates of a trade or profession

#* 1823 , W. Cobbett, Rural Rides (1885), I. 399

Oh, Oh! The cotton Lords are tearing!

(label) The heavenly body considered to possess a dominant influence over an event, time,

* (Geoffrey Chaucer), Treatise on the Astrolabe , ii. §4:

The assendent]], & eke the lord of the assendent, may be shapen for to be fortunat or infortunat, as thus, a fortunat assendent clepen they whan hows of the [[ascendant, assendent.

A hunchback.

*1699 , B.E., A new dictionary of the terms ancient and modern of the canting crew :

Lord , a very crooked, deformed... Person.

Sixpence.

* 1933 November 16, Times Literary Supplement , 782/1:

Twenty years ago you might hear a sixpence described as a ‘Lord ’ meaning ‘Lord of the Manor’; that is, a tanner.

Derived terms
* lord mesne, lord paramount, lord in gross, lord of the manor * House of Lords, Lords Temporal, Lords Spiritual * drunk as a lord * lord-in-waiting, lord of the bedchamber, lord superior * lords of creation * warlord * landlord * lord-fish
Synonyms
* drighten, possessor, proprietor, sovereign
See also
* lady
Verb
(en verb)
Domineer or act like a lord.

(label) To invest with the dignity, power, and privileges of a lord.

(Shakespeare)

Derived terms
* lord it over
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