"bolshi" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bolshis",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bolshies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s",
        "2": "bolshies"
      },
      "expansion": "bolshi (plural bolshis or bolshies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "bolshie"
        }
      ],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1982, Annual - Volume 17, page 321:",
          "text": "In his conversation with Ribentrop that took place at the beginning of April, 1943 in Hitler's headquarters, the King said from the Bulgarian Jews \"he wanted deported only an in significant number who were communists and bolshis.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Anne Collett, Lars Jensen, Anna Rutherford, Teaching Post-colonialism and Post-colonial Literatures, page 23:",
          "text": "We were unaware at the time that the rest of Australia regarded it as a dirty, ugly industrial city inhabited by a lot of 'bolshis' who'd go on strike at the drop of a hat.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin's Daughter, →ISBN, page 614:",
          "text": "Old drunk Yeltsin and all the 'apparatus' behind him are still the old 'bolshis,' only now masquerading to be something else.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of bolshie"
      ],
      "id": "en-bolshi-en-noun-~qqgSE4C",
      "links": [
        [
          "bolshie",
          "bolshie#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bolshi"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more bolshi",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most bolshi",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "expansion": "bolshi (comparative more bolshi, superlative most bolshi)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "bolshie"
        }
      ],
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        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
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        },
        {
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          "kind": "other",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995, Pat Kirkham, David Thoms, War Culture:",
          "text": "For some a 'bolshi' attitude towards authority was extended to a generalised 'they', usually meaning their bosses but also official bodies.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Katie Fforde, Thyme Out, page 1:",
          "text": "So you've got bolshi in your old age, have you? You always were difficult.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Jim Connibeer, And Dog Created Basingstoke:",
          "text": "Olga was getting rather bolshi herself.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of bolshie"
      ],
      "id": "en-bolshi-en-adj-~qqgSE4C",
      "links": [
        [
          "bolshie",
          "bolshie#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bolshi"
}

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    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bolshis",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bolshies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s",
        "2": "bolshies"
      },
      "expansion": "bolshi (plural bolshis or bolshies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "bolshie"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1982, Annual - Volume 17, page 321:",
          "text": "In his conversation with Ribentrop that took place at the beginning of April, 1943 in Hitler's headquarters, the King said from the Bulgarian Jews \"he wanted deported only an in significant number who were communists and bolshis.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Anne Collett, Lars Jensen, Anna Rutherford, Teaching Post-colonialism and Post-colonial Literatures, page 23:",
          "text": "We were unaware at the time that the rest of Australia regarded it as a dirty, ugly industrial city inhabited by a lot of 'bolshis' who'd go on strike at the drop of a hat.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin's Daughter, →ISBN, page 614:",
          "text": "Old drunk Yeltsin and all the 'apparatus' behind him are still the old 'bolshis,' only now masquerading to be something else.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of bolshie"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bolshie",
          "bolshie#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bolshi"
}

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    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more bolshi",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most bolshi",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bolshi (comparative more bolshi, superlative most bolshi)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "bolshie"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995, Pat Kirkham, David Thoms, War Culture:",
          "text": "For some a 'bolshi' attitude towards authority was extended to a generalised 'they', usually meaning their bosses but also official bodies.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Katie Fforde, Thyme Out, page 1:",
          "text": "So you've got bolshi in your old age, have you? You always were difficult.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Jim Connibeer, And Dog Created Basingstoke:",
          "text": "Olga was getting rather bolshi herself.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of bolshie"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bolshie",
          "bolshie#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bolshi"
}