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  • adjective superlative form of stroppy: most stroppy.

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Examples

  • When my Mexican wife protested, the stroppiest, fattest guard said (in effect) that I could take 90 days and shut up or take nothing at all and leave - he was tired of damn gringos and didn't care much for them.

    Can Americans be actively involved in politics in Mexico? 2004

  • The stroppiest and fattest border agent was the most difficult to deal with.

    Can Americans be actively involved in politics in Mexico? 2004

  • He's actually a regular kind of bloke, as friendly and forthcoming as any I've met in this line of work; it's just that his refusal to tolerate bullshit, both onstage and off, and his general determination to drag at least a certain proportion of his audience up by their lapels, shaking them and shouting "Wake UP!" until they do has got him numbered as the stroppiest sod this side of Johnny Rotten.

    New Musical Express 1981

  • The stroppiest, most talented and fearsomely hedonistic Banana had left to marry the beardy one from the Eurythmics, and the assumption was that she'd hung up her dungarees to become a Rock Wife.

    Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • I have a haflinger mare, she is only 5 but is the stroppiest thing i have ever met!

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2008

  • "I'll wager she's the stroppiest bit they've seen in a while.

    Ripping Time Asprin, Robert 2000

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