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stroppier

stroppier is the comparative form of stroppy.

Meaning of stroppy

Adjective

stroppy (comparative stroppier, superlative stroppiest)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang) 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

Questions about stroppier

What is stroppier the comparative form of?
Stroppier is the comparative form of stroppy.

Words near stroppier in the dictionary

  1. strophuli
  2. strophulus
  3. stropped
  4. stropper
  5. stroppers
  6. stroppier
  7. stroppiest
  8. stroppily
  9. stroppiness
  10. stropping
  11. stroppings

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