bossy pants
See also: bossy-pants
English
Alternative forms
- bossy-pants
Etymology
bossy + -pants
Noun
bossy pants (plural bossy pants)
- (informal, sometimes used attributively) A pushy or domineering person.
- 1992, Richard Hoggart, An Imagined Life: Life and Times, Volume III: 1959-91, Chatto & Windus (1992), →ISBN, page 265:
- She is in many ways my Aunt Ethel come back to life. I was brought up with, precisely, hauntingly, that shrill, nagging, over-insistent way of speaking, that bossy-pants way of walking, that remorseless insistence on always being right.
- 2006, Anne Grace, The Perfect Stranger, Berkley Sensation (2006), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
- She pulled off the paper and looked at what he'd bought her, what the horrid, arrogant, boot-burning, bossy pants had bought her.
- 2010, Sarah Mlynowski, Give Me a Call, Delacorte Press (2010), →ISBN, page 104:
- "This is ridiculous!" she yells. "Go somewhere quiet!"
- "Hold on, bossy-pants."
- For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:bossy pants.
- 1992, Richard Hoggart, An Imagined Life: Life and Times, Volume III: 1959-91, Chatto & Windus (1992), →ISBN, page 265: