bossy pants

See also: bossy-pants and bossypants

English

Alternative forms

• bossy-pants, bossypants

Etymology

bossy +‎ -pants

Noun

bossy pants (plural bossy pants)

1. (informal, sometimes used attributively) A pushy or domineering person.
   • 1992, Richard Hoggart, An Imagined Life: Life and Times, Volume III: 1959-91, Chatto & Windus, →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^[1], Berkley Sensation, →ISBN:

     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, →ISBN, page 104:

     "This is ridiculous!" she yells. "Go somewhere quiet!"
     "Hold on, bossy-pants."

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:bossy pants.