bossyboots

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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.

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