Citations:bossy pants

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English citations of bossy pants and bossy-pants

Noun: "(informal, sometimes used attributively) a pushy or domineering person"[edit]

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  • 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.
  • 2008, Jeff Alexander, A TV Guide to Life: How I Learned Everything I Needed to Know from Watching Television, Berkley (2008), →ISBN, page 97:
    However, since each show features a network honcho named Jack, each of whom is a deceptively hard-nosed bossy pants with a secret soft spot for some of his respective show's other characters, that's probably something you can take to the bank.
  • 2008, Alexandra Ivy, Darkness Everlasting, Zebra Books (2008), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
    Sacre bleu. I have never encountered such a bossy-pants.”
  • 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."
  • 2012, Colleen Hoover, Hopeless, Simon & Schuster (2012), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
    Lol. I'm getting you food, bossy pants. Be there in twenty.
  • 2013, Rosemary Budd, Inspector Paws and the Wonders of Europe, iUniverse (2013), →ISBN, page 74:
    “And old bossy pants here won't let me.”
  • 2013, Nicole Knepper, Moms Who Drink and Swear: True Tales of Loving My Kids While Losing My Mind, New American Library (2013), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
    She really was a good baby, quiet and polite, unlike her jackass, bossy-pants brother, Nick.