But She's Bossy
Everyone has their faults, and maybe mine will be of indefinite suggestion. It's the case with plenty of first children, and even more with female firstborns. I have plenty of friends who roll their eyes, same as me, when someone jokingly rebukes their herding of younger siblings. It's not a big deal. It's an occupational hazard. But if we stop and think about this, we have to remember something commonplace yet forgotten: Anything can be bad in indecent amounts. Maybe it's just my nit-pickiness about words, but when we examine the definition of 'bossy', we might find a slightly different idea than what is commonly expressed. BOSSY: adj. fond of giving people orders; domineering. If you ask most people tagged as 'bossy', they're not going to stop and say "Oh, yeah, I take great joy in distributing commands. That's why I do it." It's more of an idea of being helpful. Synonyms of bossy in a thesaurus are as follows: pushy,