stroppy
Ornery, fractious, belligerent, or obstreperous, and hence difficult to deal with.
Adjective
- Ornery, fractious, belligerent, or obstreperous, and hence difficult to deal with.
- 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. - 1989, Kenneth Branagh, Beginning, London: Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 64:
- Her shape and posture shadowed her daughter′s, though Kerry carried herself with more attitude, a stroppier jutting of the hips than her mother. - 2004, Simon Brett, The Hanging in the Hotel, Pan Macmillan UK:
- Even today, women who show signs of anger and who express themselves in some assertive way may be labelled stroppy for doing so. - 2010, Gillian Bloxham, W. Doyle Gentry, Anger Management For Dummies, UK edition:
Origin
From obstropulous, obsolete slang form of obstreperous, + -y.