" boss "

[Noun]  | "boss" | \ ˈbȯs \

1: a person who exercises control or authority; specifically : one who directs or supervises workers

2: someone who controls votes in a party organization or dictates appointments or legislative measures

3: a major antagonist in a game (such as a video game or board game) and usually one that must be overcome in order for a player to progress —often used before another noun

Origin: 1806 ;

 Borrowed from Dutch baas "master, person in authority," earlier, "friend and master, head of a household," going back to Middle Dutch baes, used as a surname, of uncertain origin;

  * Note : Compare late Middle Low German bas "superintendent of dikes," Frisian baas "master," the latter perhaps a loanword from Dutch. A relationship with Old High German basa "father's sister," German Base, name for various female relatives, is very unlikely. — The word boss was borrowed in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries from New York and New Jersey Dutch; as a name for a person in authority in Dutch it is already reported in New England in 1653—see: citations in Oxford English Dictionary, first edition, and M. Mathews, Dictionary of Americanisms (though the alleged use by John Winthrop is most likely a misreading—see: The Journal of John Winthrop 1630-1649 [Cambridge, 1996], p. 161). The adoption of Dutch long as a rounded vowel is paralleled by {dollar|dollar}.;

[Noun]  | "boss" | \ ˈbäs \

1: a raised ornamentation (as on a belt or shield) : stud

2: an ornamental projecting block used in architecture

3: a protuberant part or body

Origin: 14th century ;

 Middle English boce, from Anglo-French, from Vulgar Latin *bottia;

[Noun]  | "boss" | \ ˈbȯs \

1: cow, calf

Origin: 1790 ;

 English dialect, young cow;

[Noun]  | "boss man" 

1: boss

Origin: 1875 ;

[Noun]  | "pit boss" 

1: a person who supervises the gaming tables in a casino

Origin: 1939 ;

[Noun]  | "straw boss" 

1: an assistant to a foreman in charge of supervising and expediting the work of a small group of workers

2: a member of a group of workers who supervises the work of the others in addition to doing their own job

Origin: 1894 ;

[Verb]  | "boss" | \ ˈbȯs \

1: to give usually arbitrary orders to —usually used with around

2: to exercise control or authority over : to act as boss of

Origin: 1856 ;

 Derivative of {see: |boss:1|boss:1};

[Verb]  | "boss" | \ ˈbäs \

1: to embellish (something, such as a belt or shield) with a raised decoration : to ornament with bosses : emboss

2: to treat (something, such as the surface of porcelain) with a boss

Origin: 15th century ;

 Derivative of {see: |boss:4|boss:4};

[Adjective]  | "boss" | \ ˈbȯs \

1: excellent, first-rate

Origin: 1836 ;

 Derivative of {see: |boss:1|boss:1};

[Adjective]  | "an*ti-boss" | \ ˌan-tē-ˈbäs \

1: opposed to or hostile toward bosses or a particular boss

Origin: 1950 ;

[Noun]  | "boss" 

[Noun]  | "boss man" 

[Noun]  | "boss men" 

[Noun]  | "straw boss" 

[Adjective]  | "boss" 

[Verb]  | "boss" 

[Verb]  | "boss (around)"