"bossy pants" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "bossy + -pants",
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          "ref": "1992, Richard Hoggart, An Imagined Life: Life and Times, Volume III: 1959-91, Chatto & Windus, page 265",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2006, Anne Grace, The Perfect Stranger, Berkley Sensation",
          "text": "She pulled off the paper and looked at what he'd bought her, what the horrid, arrogant, boot-burning, bossy pants had bought her.",
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          "ref": "2010, Sarah Mlynowski, Give Me a Call, Delacorte Press, page 104",
          "text": "\"This is ridiculous!\" she yells. \"Go somewhere quiet!\"\n\"Hold on, bossy-pants.\"",
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        "A pushy or domineering person."
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        "(informal, sometimes used attributively) A pushy or domineering person."
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          "ref": "1992, Richard Hoggart, An Imagined Life: Life and Times, Volume III: 1959-91, Chatto & Windus, page 265",
          "text": "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.",
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