Controller vs Bossy - What's the difference?
controller | bossy |
One who controls something.
* (rfdate) (Dryden)
(business) A person who audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government; a comptroller.
(computing) A mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine, especially a peripheral device in a computer.
(nautical) An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged.
Tending to give orders to others, especially when unwarranted; domineering.
(US, informal, dated) A cow or calf.
* about 1900 , O. Henry,
As nouns the difference between controller and bossy
is that controller is one who controls something while bossy is (us|informal|dated) a cow or calf.As an adjective bossy is
tending to give orders to others, especially when unwarranted; domineering or bossy can be ornamented with bosses; studded.controller
English
Noun
(en noun)- The great controller of our fate / Deigned to be man, and lived in low estate.
Synonyms
* administrator * foreman * chief, head, head man * comptroller * overseer * organizer * superintendent * supervisorDerived terms
* memory controller * microcontrollerbossy
English
Etymology 1
Adjective
(er)Synonyms
* dictatorial, authoritarian, commanding, tyrannical, demanding, inflexible * see alsoEtymology 2
Diminutive of dialectal English boss, as used in the term ).Noun
(bossies)- 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.