bossyboots
English
Etymology
bossy + boots
Noun
bossyboots (plural bossyboots)
- (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.
- 2008, Jennifer DeVere Brody, Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play