bolshie
UK/ˈbɒl.ʃi/
bolshie noun: a government leftist, especially a communist, socialist, or labour union leader.
Noun
bolshie (plural bolshies)
Adjective
bolshie (comparative bolshier, superlative bolshiest)
- Difficult or rebellious.
- Kate, don't be so bolshie!
- It's quite possible that I and my pals were nasty bolshy little schoolboys who thoroughly deserved to be thrashed through the gorse bushes in the dead of the night[.]1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 108
- Synonyms:
- contrary, contumacious, perverse, recalcitrant
bolshie meaning in Malayalam
bolshie in Malayalam
- uncooperative, awkward, disobliging
- പ്രശ്നങ്ങളുണ്ടാക്കുന്ന, ഉടക്കുകളുണ്ടാക്കുന്ന, നിസ്സഹകരണമനസ്ഥിതിക്കാരനായ, മനപൂർവ്വം സഹകരിക്കാത്ത, സഹകരണമില്ലാത്ത, വിലക്ഷണസ്വഭാവിയായ
Examples of bolshie in a sentence
- Rachel came in, and Nick felt he'd been caught larking about, Catherine squashing him like some bolshie teenage attempt at seduction.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 16, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
- "I can be bolshie if I'm fighting for a cause or for someone else, but deep down I'm very sensitive."2026 January 2, Nathan Bevan, “Weight-loss jabs MP faced 'constant cruel abuse' from trolls”, in BBC News:
Synonyms of bolshie
Forms of bolshie
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | bolshies |
| alternative form | bolshi |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | bolshier |
| superlative | bolshiest |
| alternative form | bolshy |
Origin of bolshie
From Bolshevik (Russian большеви́к (bolʹševík), the socialist party in the 1918 Russian Revolution, from Russian большевики́ (bolʹševikí, “majority faction”), + -ie.
Questions about bolshie
- What does bolshie mean?
- Bolshie means a government leftist, especially a communist, socialist, or labour union leader.
- What is bolshie in Malayalam?
- Bolshie in Malayalam is പ്രശ്നങ്ങളുണ്ടാക്കുന്ന, ഉടക്കുകളുണ്ടാക്കുന്ന, നിസ്സഹകരണമനസ്ഥിതിക്കാരനായ. See Bolshie meaning in Malayalam.
- How do you use bolshie in a sentence?
- Rachel came in, and Nick felt he'd been caught larking about, Catherine squashing him like some bolshie teenage attempt at seduction.
- What part of speech is bolshie?
- Bolshie can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce bolshie?
- Bolshie is pronounced /ˈbɒl.ʃi/ (UK).
- What is the plural of bolshie?
- The plural of bolshie is bolshies.
Words near bolshie in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: bolshie (page history and authors); bolshie (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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