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stroppy

[ UK /stɹˈɒpi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. obstreperous

How To Use stroppy In A Sentence

  • If you wear it to muck out the horses, I might get stroppy. Times, Sunday Times
  • A mother I knew was going through a really unpleasant time with a stroppy teenage son. Positive Parent Power
  • Much imaginative capering ensues as our stroppy young heroine comes of age through the time-honoured route of folly, emergency driving lessons and sexual awakening at the hands of Robert Sheehan the gobby Irish one from Misfits, who plays snoggable townie borrower Spiller as a tearaway in a red biker jacket. Phil Hogan's Christmas TV highlights
  • He is part stroppy trade unionist, part renaissance man with his broad range of interests from media work to hotels to coaching. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's like a university tutorial conducted not by the Professor but by a stroppy student.
  • One intention of the season, in the words of the powers that be, was to "emancipate" John from his mother, but his stroppy teenager act whenever the subject of Riley came up made him less, not more sympathetic. DVD Times
  • Linnaeus dubbed blackthorn Prunus spinosa because everything about it is prickly, tart, sour and generally stroppy. Wildwood
  • Sometimes these old folk can get really stroppy. The Sun
  • A stroppy stand-off ensued with security, who cut the electricity after she climbed the rigging. The Sun
  • Sometimes these old folk can get really stroppy. The Sun
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