bossy

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• General-American, Multicultural-London-English: /ˈbɔsi/
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• cot-caught-merger: /ˈbɑsi/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbɒsi/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbɒsɪ/
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bhā- Proto-Germanic *bō-? Proto-Germanic *baswô Proto-West Germanic *baswō Old Dutch *baso Middle Dutch baes Dutch baasbor. English boss Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English bossy From boss + -y.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bhew-der.? Proto-Germanic *bautaną Proto-West Germanic *bautan Frankish *bottjabor. Vulgar Latin *bottia Old French bocebor. Middle English bos English boss Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English bossy From boss + -y.

Diminutive of dialectal English boss + -y, as used in the term boss-calf (which, like buss-calf, is a variant form of boose-calf, a calf kept in a boose (“stall”)).

33 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: مُتَسَلِّط (mutasalliṭ) — tending to give orders to others
• Bulgarian: властен (vlasten) — tending to give orders to others
• Bulgarian: обичащ да командва (običašt da komandva) — tending to give orders to others
• Catalan: manaire — tending to give orders to others
• Chinese Mandarin: 愛發號施令的 /爱发号施令的 (ài fāhàoshīlìng de) — tending to give orders to others
• Chinese Mandarin: 跋扈 (báhù) — tending to give orders to others
• Czech: panovačný — tending to give orders to others
• Dutch: bazig — tending to give orders to others
• Finnish: komenteleva — tending to give orders to others
• French: autoritaire — tending to give orders to others
• German: herrisch — tending to give orders to others
• German: rechthaberisch — tending to give orders to others
• German: autoritär — tending to give orders to others
• German: diktatorisch — tending to give orders to others
• German: herrschsüchtig — tending to give orders to others
• Hungarian: dirigál — tending to give orders to others
• Irish: tiarnúil — tending to give orders to others
• Manx: mainshtyragh — tending to give orders to others
• Māori: tonotono — tending to give orders to others
• Norwegian Bokmål: sjefete — tending to give orders to others
• Plautdietsch: baussich — tending to give orders to others
• Polish: rządzący się — tending to give orders to others
• Polish: władczy — tending to give orders to others
• Polish: apodyktyczny — tending to give orders to others
• Portuguese: mandão — tending to give orders to others
• Romanian: poruncitor — tending to give orders to others
• Romanian: autoritar — tending to give orders to others
• Russian: лю́бящий кома́ндовать (ljúbjaščij komándovatʹ) — tending to give orders to others
• Russian: вла́стный (vlástnyj) — tending to give orders to others
• Sicilian: cumanneru — tending to give orders to others
• Spanish: mandón — tending to give orders to others
• Swedish: bossig — tending to give orders to others
• Welsh: trahaus — tending to give orders to others