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stroppy, a. colloq.|ˈstrɒpɪ|
[? abbrev. of obstreperous a. with altered stem-vowel.]
Bad-tempered, rebellious, awkward, obstreperous, unruly. Hence ˈstroppiness.
1951H. Hastings Seagulls over Sorrento ii. i, in Plays of Year 1950 IV. 76 There ain't nothing clever about answering him back and being stroppy. 1964J. Burke Hard Day's Night iv. 80 ‘Have you got a licence for it?’ ‘Oh, don't be so stroppy.’ 1968[see shit n. 1 g]. 1969New Statesman 31 Oct. 633/3 It anyhow seems to me (perhaps out of stroppiness) that the good toys aren't all necessarily the ones that teach how to count or measure. 1973J. Wainwright Devil you Don't 116 All that balls about ‘with respect’... Honesty. Stroppiness. 1977Guardian Weekly 27 Feb. 5/4 Those who didn't know him well..missed the stroppy radicalism of his spirit. 1983Listener 14 Apr. 37/1 Susan, on the other hand, is streetwise and stroppy. |