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bossy
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?b?si/
- (cot-caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /?b?si/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?b?si/, /?b?s?/
- Rhymes: -?si, -??si
Etymology 1
boss +? -y
Adjective
bossy (comparative bossier, superlative bossiest)
- Tending to give orders to others, especially when unwarranted; domineering.
Synonyms
- dictatorial, authoritarian, commanding, tyrannical, demanding, inflexible
- see also Thesaurus:bossy
Translations
Etymology 2
Diminutive of dialectal English boss, as used in the term boss-calf (which, like buss-calf, is a variant form of boose-calf, a calf kept in a boose (“stall”)).
Noun
bossy (plural bossies)
- (US, informal, dated) A cow or calf.
- about 1900, O. Henry, Hygeia at the Solito
- A week before, while riding the prairies, Raidler had come upon a sick and weakling calf deserted and bawling. Without dismounting he had reached and slung the distressed bossy across his saddle, and dropped it at the ranch for the boys to attend to.
- about 1900, O. Henry, Hygeia at the Solito
Etymology 3
boss +? -y
Adjective
bossy (comparative more bossy, superlative most bossy)
- Ornamented with bosses; studded.
Anagrams
- sybos
Lower Sorbian
Adjective
bossy
- Obsolete spelling of bósy
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proud
English
Alternative forms
- prowd (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English proud, prout, prut, from Old English pr?d, pr?t (“proud, arrogant, haughty”) (compare Old English pr?tung (“pride”); pr?de, pr?te (“pride”)). Cognate with German Low German praud, Old Norse prúðr (“gallant, brave, magnificent, stately, handsome, fine”) (Icelandic prúður, Middle Swedish prudh, Danish prud), probably from Old French prod, prud (“brave, gallant”) (modern French preux), from Late Latin pr?de (“useful”), derived from Latin pr?desse (“to be of value”); however, the Old English umlaut derivatives pr?te, pr?tian, etc. suggest the word may be older and possibly native. See also pride.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?a?d/
- Rhymes: -a?d
Adjective
proud (comparative prouder or more proud, superlative proudest or most proud)
- Feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified.
- That makes one feel proud (of something one did)
- That makes one feel proud (of something one did)
- Possessed of a due sense of what one deserves or is worth.
- (chiefly biblical) Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious.
- Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride.
- (Of things) standing upwards as in the manner of a proud person; stately or majestic.
- Standing out or raised; swollen.
- (obsolete) Brave, valiant; gallant.
- (obsolete) Excited by sexual desire; specifically of a female animal: in heat.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:arrogant
Antonyms
- ashamed
Derived terms
Related terms
- pride
- prude
Translations
Anagrams
- pour'd, pudor
Czech
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *pr?d?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?prou?t]
- Rhymes: -out
Noun
proud m
- current
- (electricity) current
Declension
Derived terms
- proud?ní
- proudící
- proudit
- po proudu
- proti proudu
- protiproud
Further reading
- proud in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- proud in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
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