bossy

Etymology 1

boss + -y

adj

1. Tending to give orders to others, especially when unwarranted; domineering.
   Over in the wardrobe department a bossy woman in ill-fitting dungarees tried to talk her into wearing a short red low-cut dress for the test. 1994, Jackie Collins, Hollywood Kids
   Where American Jewish men contend with stereotypes of being oversexed, needy, nebbishy and neurotic (like Woody Allen, boo hiss), Jewish women are cast as withholding, bossy, exotic, and materialistic (like Fran Drescher, which honestly? Goals). 2019, Fancy Feast, “On Being a Fetish”, in Jewish Currents, number Summer 2019

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

1. (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.

Etymology 3

boss + -y

adj

1. Ornamented with bosses; studded.