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bossier | dossier |

As an adjective bossier

is (bossy).

As a noun dossier is

.

bossier

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (bossy)

  • bossy

    English

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Tending to give orders to others, especially when unwarranted; domineering.
  • Synonyms
    * dictatorial, authoritarian, commanding, tyrannical, demanding, inflexible * see also

    Etymology 2

    Diminutive of dialectal English boss, as used in the term ).

    Noun

    (bossies)
  • (US, informal, dated) A cow or calf.
  • * about 1900 , O. Henry,
  • A week before, while riding the prairies, Raidler had come upon a sick and weakling calf deserted and bawling. Without dismounting he had reached and slung the distressed bossy across his saddle, and dropped it at the ranch for the boys to attend to.

    Etymology 3

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Ornamented with bosses; studded.
  • ----

    dossier

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A collection of papers and/or other sources, containing detailed information about a particular person or subject, together with a synopsis of their content.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2004 , date=April 15 , author= , title=Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer , work=The Scotsman citation , page= , passage=For Lothian and Borders Police, the early-morning raid had come at the end one of biggest investigations carried out by the force, which had originally presented a dossier of evidence on the murder of Jodi Jones to the Edinburgh procurator-fiscal, William Gallagher, on 25 November last year. }}