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Definition of stroppy in English: stroppyadjectivestroppier, stroppiest ˈstrɒpiˈstrɑpi British informal Bad-tempered and argumentative. Patricia was getting stroppy Example sentencesExamples - ‘Hawick people are very stroppy,’ says Barnes.
- ‘She's a stroppy one all right, and she will play to the crowd,’ she added.
- No, actually, I'll take stroppy little Eva over the ‘deep and spiritual’ Yaya or Amanda any day.
- You don't have to be a millionaire to come here, but if you want to hang out with stroppy supermodels, it probably helps.
- Then the woman this morning got stroppy because I expected a free breakfast.
- You've been very unhappy and as a result become willful and stroppy.
- There must be easier ways of embezzling money than having to drain the bank accounts of a couple of stroppy kids.
- Sarah is stroppy, opinionated and interfering.
- If you can't keep the lid on a couple of stroppy 14-year-olds, you are in the wrong job.
- It's like a university tutorial conducted not by the Professor but by a stroppy student.
- Sounds great, but to be honest, given the choice, I think I'd rather deal with the stroppy teenager - particularly if the subject is male.
- However, the Beckhams tend to get a bit stroppy if anyone dares wonder if their marriage is in trouble.
- I was starting to do a caesarean section on a really stroppy cow who was kicking and thrashing about all over the place.
- All the kids were unspeakably cute even when they were being stroppy.
- Marina is the superficially assured yet vulnerable one, naughty, stroppy, self-serving and extrovert, rebelling against her unstable home life.
- Every time I had some form of prize or something he really got very stroppy about it.
- And will this leave Lyle cast as the stroppy adolescent?
- Watch out for irritability, being more stroppy with other people and not sleeping very well.
- This is another way of saying he's very stroppy.
- He got stroppy after being ‘forcibly ushered out’ but did not use any industrial language.
Synonyms bad-tempered, ill-tempered, irritable, grumpy, cantankerous, truculent, sulky, sullen, awkward, uncooperative, unhelpful, recalcitrant, refractory, difficult, perverse, contrary, confrontational, argumentative, quarrelsome, obstreperous, choleric Scottish thrawn informal pig-headed, cussed British informal shirty, ratty, narky, bolshie, bloody-minded North American informal balky, scrappy archaic contumacious, froward rare contrarious
Derivatives adverb British informal Unlike other systems that stroppily tell you to make a U-turn, it calmly and almost invisibly replots the route. Example sentencesExamples - ‘Hi Ros-anna’ I said stroppily when I first met her, prepared to hate this beautiful woman and the competition she brought with her.
- The newbie gets up and stroppily walks out of the office.
- I re-did the vocal a week later, if only to make a point of starting as stroppily as I intended to continue.
- I exclaimed, and flounced stroppily to my desk.
noun British informal Days later the Scotsman took a pot shot at Sands' stroppiness while attending an awards ceremony. Example sentencesExamples - A pantomime of stroppiness ensued, complete with petted lip.
- Lalita is played by the stunning Aishwarya Rai, who successfully conveys the character's combination of intelligence and downright stroppiness.
- The pressure of the festive season, combined with raging hormones, has raised my reputation for stroppiness to an unprecedented high.
- He doesn't come close despite his all round stroppiness.
Origin 1950s: perhaps an abbreviation of obstreperous. Rhymes choppy, copy, floppy, jalopy, moppy, poppy, sloppy, soppy Definition of stroppy in US English: stroppyadjectiveˈstrɑpiˈsträpē British informal Bad-tempered and argumentative. Patricia was getting stroppy Example sentencesExamples - You've been very unhappy and as a result become willful and stroppy.
- ‘She's a stroppy one all right, and she will play to the crowd,’ she added.
- No, actually, I'll take stroppy little Eva over the ‘deep and spiritual’ Yaya or Amanda any day.
- ‘Hawick people are very stroppy,’ says Barnes.
- I was starting to do a caesarean section on a really stroppy cow who was kicking and thrashing about all over the place.
- And will this leave Lyle cast as the stroppy adolescent?
- Every time I had some form of prize or something he really got very stroppy about it.
- Watch out for irritability, being more stroppy with other people and not sleeping very well.
- Then the woman this morning got stroppy because I expected a free breakfast.
- All the kids were unspeakably cute even when they were being stroppy.
- Sounds great, but to be honest, given the choice, I think I'd rather deal with the stroppy teenager - particularly if the subject is male.
- However, the Beckhams tend to get a bit stroppy if anyone dares wonder if their marriage is in trouble.
- There must be easier ways of embezzling money than having to drain the bank accounts of a couple of stroppy kids.
- Marina is the superficially assured yet vulnerable one, naughty, stroppy, self-serving and extrovert, rebelling against her unstable home life.
- This is another way of saying he's very stroppy.
- Sarah is stroppy, opinionated and interfering.
- If you can't keep the lid on a couple of stroppy 14-year-olds, you are in the wrong job.
- He got stroppy after being ‘forcibly ushered out’ but did not use any industrial language.
- You don't have to be a millionaire to come here, but if you want to hang out with stroppy supermodels, it probably helps.
- It's like a university tutorial conducted not by the Professor but by a stroppy student.
Synonyms bad-tempered, ill-tempered, irritable, grumpy, cantankerous, truculent, sulky, sullen, awkward, uncooperative, unhelpful, recalcitrant, refractory, difficult, perverse, contrary, confrontational, argumentative, quarrelsome, obstreperous, choleric
Origin 1950s: perhaps an abbreviation of obstreperous. |