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Meaning of bossy pants | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A pushy or domineering person.

attributive, informal, sometimes

Examples

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.”
She pulled off the paper and looked at what he'd bought her, what the horrid, arrogant, boot-burning, bossy pants had bought her.”
“"This is ridiculous!" she yells. "Go somewhere quiet!" "Hold on, bossy-pants."”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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