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Adjective: bossy (bossier,bossiest)  bó-see
  1. Offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power
    "a bossy way of ordering others around";
    - autocratic, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory

Derived forms: bossiest, bossier

See also: domineering

Encyclopedia: Bossy, John