"stroppy" meaning in English

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      "form": "stroppier",
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      "form": "stroppiest",
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          "word": "stroppily"
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          "ref": "1989, Kenneth Branagh, Beginning, London: Chatto & Windus, page 64",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2004, Simon Brett, The Hanging in the Hotel, Pan Macmillan UK",
          "text": "Her shape and posture shadowed her daughter′s, though Kerry carried herself with more attitude, a stroppier jutting of the hips than her mother.",
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          "ref": "2010, Gillian Bloxham, W. Doyle Gentry, Anger Management For Dummies, UK edition",
          "text": "Even today, women who show signs of anger and who express themselves in some assertive way may be labelled stroppy for doing so.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Alexandra Bell, Rising to the Deadline, Trafford Publishing, Canada, page 140",
          "text": "The people who actually produced the paper, mainly the printers, were a stroppier lot, with a more aggressive union.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Sophie Kinsella [pseudonym; Madeleine Wickham], Mini Shopaholic, page 341",
          "text": "Davina told me earlier that Luke was the stroppiest patient she'd ever had and that he'd given her a lecture on how inefficient and time-wasting her medical was.",
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        "Ornery, fractious, belligerent, or obstreperous, and hence difficult to deal with."
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        "(UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) Ornery, fractious, belligerent, or obstreperous, and hence difficult to deal with."
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          "word": "strop"
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "obstreperous",
          "word": "borné"
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      "word": "stroppily"
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        },
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