Stroppy
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -É’pi
Origin
From obstropulous, obsolete slang for obstreperous.
Full definition of stroppy
Adjective
stroppy
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) Ornery, fractious, belligerent, or obstreperous, and hence difficult to deal with.
- 2004, Simon Brett, The Hanging in the Hotel, Pan Macmillan UK, %22stroppiest%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=d3fYWqfkCJ&sig=OUBaET8K2Ak5EcldxH4NH3tROmg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=z1hoULDrLY-XiAfuwIHYDw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22stroppier%22|%22stroppiest%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false unnumbered page,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, UK Edition, %22stroppier%22|%22stroppiest%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=4mWIIh_96S&sig=3hzZTUQ20TbD3umF-N2aCoKjG88&hl=en&sa=X&ei=YFVoUKCFHOTqiAexrYH4Bg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22stroppy%22|%22stroppier%22|%22stroppiest%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false unnumbered page,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: One Woman's Sexy Climb to the Top in Newspapers, Trafford Publishing, Canada, %22stroppiest%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=hMBcwMMUPH&sig=WBlqT8PtwYLY01e6OC1B2Xw4IaE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=z1hoULDrLY-XiAfuwIHYDw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22stroppier%22|%22stroppiest%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 140,The people who actually produced the paper, mainly the printers, were a stroppier lot, with a more aggressive union.
- 2010, Sophie Kinsella (Madeleine Wickham), , %22stroppiest%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=k_Vx0T4t0f&sig=9bDHD_Mx_xetuOqUGbMzP37fuGo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=z1hoULDrLY-XiAfuwIHYDw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false 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 ineflicient and time-wasting her medical was.