Stroppy: (was) This has got too far from Ransome-so what's new


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Posted by Allan_Lang on October 19, 2003 at 22:05:04 from 202.61.171.25 user Allan_Lang.

In Reply to: Re: This has got too far from Ransome-so what's new posted by John Nichols on October 19, 2003 at 21:23:05:

The meaning of "stroppy" is closer to "bolshie" than it is to "feisty".

In Dictionary Of Contemporary Slang, Bloomsbury, 1990, Tony Thorne gives the meaning as "obstreporous, aggressive, uncoöperative" and orginating in the 1940s (no examples given). He notes also "Various deformations of obstreporous have been recoreded since the 18th century."

The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, (Captain Francis Grose), MacMillian, 1981, notes "obstropulous" as a misnomer of "obstreporous" (Thorne suggests "obstropulous" may be the intermediate to "stroppy")


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