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Bossy vs Bossyboots - What's the difference?

bossy | bossyboots |

As nouns the difference between bossy and bossyboots

is that bossy is (us|informal|dated) a cow or calf while bossyboots is (informal) a bossy person.

As an adjective bossy

is tending to give orders to others, especially when unwarranted; domineering or bossy can be ornamented with bosses; studded.

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.
    • ----

    bossyboots

    English

    Noun

  • (informal) A bossy person.
  • * 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.