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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Given to ordering others around; domineering.
  2. adj. Decorated with raised ornaments.
  3. n. Informal A cow or calf.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Furnished or ornamented with a boss or bosses.
  2. Projecting in the round; boldly prominent, as if composed of bosses: said of sculpture, etc.
  3. Acting like a boss; masterful; domineering.
  4. n. A familiar name for a cow or calf. See boss .

Wiktionary

  1. n. US, informal, dated A cow or calf.
  2. adj. tending to give orders to others, especially when unwarranted; domineering

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Ornamented with bosses; studded.
  2. n. United States A cow or calf; -- familiarly so called.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power

Etymologies

  1. Diminutive of English dialect boss in boss-calf, buss-calf, for boose-calf, properly, a calf kept in the stall. See boose. (Wiktionary)
  2. From boss3. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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