Crossword clues for stroppy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"rebellious," by 1943, British nautical slang, perhaps a slang mangling of obstreperous. "Sea Passages: A Naval Anthology and Introduction to the Study of English" [1943, Geoffrey Callender] quotes from a letter:\n\nWhy Nobby should reckon that his raggie should blow the gaff, when there are crushers everywhere, leaves me guessing; but there it is. In the last dog he rounded on me and called me a white rat. I got stroppy and told him he was shooting a line: but all he said was, 'Oh! choke your luff! I'm looking for another oppo you snivelling sand-catcher.' So that looks like paying off.\n\nto which Callender adds, "There is nothing in this letter which an active service rating could fail to understand."
Wiktionary
a. (context UK Australia New Zealand slang English) ornery, fractious, belligerent, or obstreperous, and hence difficult to deal with.
WordNet
adj. obstreperous [syn: bolshy]
[also: stroppiest, stroppier]
Usage examples of "stroppy".
Cherisse leaned into the glow of the makeup mirror, fiddling with a stroppy false eyelash.
She got quite stroppy with me because I confessed to a day in Venice instead of combing the neighbourhood for Drew.
He was a stroppy runt with a tray he could hardly carry, unable to wipe his snotty nose on his sleeve because he was holding the tray.
Advice on how to deal with extreme emotional stress from stroppy punters.
If anyone could call up demons any time they wanted, the demons would get highly pissed off and stroppy and work out ways to counteract the summonses.
Giles got very stroppy with our interlocutors but I was very encouraging.
He was a stroppy runt with a tray he could hardly carry, unable to wipe his snotty nose on his sleeve because he was holding the tray.