stroppy

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English

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Etymology

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From obstropulous, obsolete slang form of obstreperous, +‎ -y.

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stroppy (comparative stroppier, superlative stroppiest)

  1. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) Ornery, fractious, belligerent, or obstreperous, and hence difficult to deal with.
    • 1989, Kenneth Branagh, Beginning, London: Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 64:
      In this case, the application of the famous method was a little shaky. To be fair, the director was dealing with a pretty stroppy cast.
    • 2004, Simon Brett, The Hanging in the Hotel[1], Pan Macmillan UK:
      Her shape and posture shadowed her daughter′s, though Kerry carried herself with more attitude, a stroppier jutting of the hips than her mother.
    • 2010, Gillian Bloxham, W. Doyle Gentry, Anger Management For Dummies[2], UK edition:
      Even today, women who show signs of anger and who express themselves in some assertive way may be labelled stroppy for doing so.
    • 2010, Alexandra Bell, Rising to the Deadline, Trafford Publishing, Canada, page 140:
      The people who actually produced the paper, mainly the printers, were a stroppier lot, with a more aggressive union.
    • 2010, Sophie Kinsella [pseudonym; Madeleine Wickham], Mini Shopaholic, page 341:
      Davina told me earlier that Luke was the stroppiest patient she'd ever had and that he'd given her a lecture on how inefficient and time-wasting her medical was.

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