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- noun The state or condition of being
stroppy .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Happy and working our way through the madness and the attitudes and the tantrums and the stroppiness as well enjoying the love and the craziness.
The Amazing Survivor Race Challenge: Parenting Edition | Her Bad Mother 2009
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Happy and working our way through the madness and the attitudes and the tantrums and the stroppiness as well enjoying the love and the craziness.
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He admires and enjoys the sense of purpose in each tree, its stroppiness.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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He admires and enjoys the sense of purpose in each tree, its stroppiness.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Sharon, my apologies, I don't mean any stroppiness, I'm just blog-shy, invite me to come to tea, and I'll happily bring scones.
The Literary Landscape of Singapore Sharon Bakar 2005
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This episode was excessive in it's NEW DOCTOR-NESS, and consequently doesn't help apologists for NEW DOCTOR-NESS because it justifies the otherwise totally unjustified / childish / petty stroppiness, sulkiness, huffing & puffing of Who puritans - Look.
Love And Monsters annawaits 2006
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TBLY 15 also features the second part of the serialisation of Fall radio sessions (concluding part in issue 16), further insights into the best Fall bootlegs around, readers letters, plus plenty of piss taking, OTT stroppiness, and much more.
FallNews - anecdotes 1999
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Theorists of urban design may note that Liverpool's insistent civic stroppiness, scruffiness and what Engels called "barbarity" may be its greatest assets.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Theorists of urban design may note that Liverpool's insistent civic stroppiness, scruffiness and what Engels called "barbarity" may be its greatest assets.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Emma is more lovable - cleverer and more honest than Dexter, but prone to stroppiness and self-doubt.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
whichbe commented on the word stroppiness
(U.K.) Obstreperousness, unruliness, rebelliousness.
May 13, 2008