bootstrappy

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From the idiomatic phrase pull oneself up by one's bootstraps.

Adjective[edit]

bootstrappy (comparative more bootstrappy, superlative most bootstrappy)

  1. (informal) Hard-working, self-reliant, and enterprising.
    • 2011, Alina Simone, You Must Go and Win: Essays‎[1], pages 148–149:
      Unwilling to accept the strictures of the Russian Orthodox Church, they demonstrated a very bootstrappy, can-do attitude by simply inventing their own religion from scratch.
    • 2014, L. Alison Heller, The Never Never Sisters, unnumbered page:
      My mom nodded her approval. It was "very bootstrappy" to work late.
    • 2019, Anna Pitoniak, Necessary People, unnumbered page:
      Look at me, climbing the ladder at KCN: I was a perfect example of that bootstrappy, self-reliant, equal-opportunity American spirit.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:bootstrappy.
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