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"ref": "1994, Jackie Collins, Hollywood Kids",
"text": "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.",
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{
"ref": "2019, Fancy Feast, “On Being a Fetish”, in Jewish Currents, number Summer 2019",
"text": "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).",
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"roman": "mutasalliṭ",
"sense": "tending to give orders to others",
"word": "مُتَسَلِّط"
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"sense": "tending to give orders to others",
"word": "manaire"
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "tending to give orders to others",
"word": "愛發號施令的"
},
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"roman": "ài fāhàoshīlìng de",
"sense": "tending to give orders to others",
"word": "爱发号施令的"
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"roman": "báhù",
"sense": "tending to give orders to others",
"word": "跋扈"
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"word": "panovačný"
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"sense": "tending to give orders to others",
"word": "bazig"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "tending to give orders to others",
"word": "komenteleva"
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "tending to give orders to others",
"word": "autoritaire"
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"sense": "tending to give orders to others",
"word": "herrisch"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "tending to give orders to others",
"word": "rechthaberisch"
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"sense": "tending to give orders to others",
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"sense": "tending to give orders to others",
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"sense": "tending to give orders to others",
"word": "herrschsüchtig"
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"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "tending to give orders to others",
"word": "dirigál"
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"sense": "tending to give orders to others",
"word": "tiarnúil"
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"sense": "tending to give orders to others",
"word": "mainshtyragh"
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"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "tending to give orders to others",
"word": "tonotono"
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"sense": "tending to give orders to others",
"word": "sjefete"
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"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "tending to give orders to others",
"word": "baussich"
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"word": "apodyktyczny"
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"sense": "tending to give orders to others",
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"word": "mandão"
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"word": "poruncitor"
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"word": "autoritar"
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"roman": "ljúbjaščij komándovatʹ",
"sense": "tending to give orders to others",
"word": "лю́бящий кома́ндовать"
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"roman": "vlástnyj",
"sense": "tending to give orders to others",
"word": "вла́стный"
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"sense": "tending to give orders to others",
"word": "cumanneru"
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"sense": "tending to give orders to others",
"word": "mandón"
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"sense": "tending to give orders to others",
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"word": "tyrannical"
}
],
"word": "bossy"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "dsb",
"2": "adjective",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "bossy",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "bossy",
"name": "dsb-adjective"
}
],
"lang": "Lower Sorbian",
"lang_code": "dsb",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "bósy"
}
],
"categories": [
"Lower Sorbian adjectives",
"Lower Sorbian entries with incorrect language header",
"Lower Sorbian lemmas",
"Lower Sorbian obsolete forms"
],
"glosses": [
"Obsolete spelling of bósy"
],
"links": [
[
"bósy",
"bósy#Lower Sorbian"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"word": "bossy"
}
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