Bossy vs Pert - What's the difference?
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Tending to give orders to others, especially when unwarranted; domineering.
(US, informal, dated) A cow or calf.
* about 1900 , O. Henry,
Attractive (of a person); well-formed, shapely (of a part of the body).
Lively; alert and cheerful; bright.
* 1594 , William Shakespeare, , Act 1, Scene 1:
* 2009 , Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 333:
(obsolete) Open; evident; unhidden; apert.
Bossy is a related term of pert.
As an adjective bossy
is tending to give orders to others, especially when unwarranted; domineering or bossy can be ornamented with bosses; studded.As a noun bossy
is (us|informal|dated) a cow or calf.As an acronym pert is
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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.
Etymology 3
pert
English
Adjective
(er)- "Go Philostrate, Stirre vp the Athenian youth to merriments, Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth"
- "You'll not be so pert when the Cornish seize you. They spit children like you and roast them on bonfires."
- (Piers Plowman)