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Bolshy, Bolshie, n. and a.|ˈbɒlʃɪ|
[-y6.]
A. n. A jocular or contemptuous name for a Bolshevik. Also transf. and fig.
1920John Bull 28 Aug. 1 We can quite understand the Bolshies' repugnance to labour—except with the jaw. 1920Punch 10 Nov. 373/1 Mr. Stanton could think of no better retort than the stereotyped ‘Bolshie!’ 1921R. Hichens Spirit of Time xii, Those Russians.. breed more princesses than we do..but they seem to be giving them toko over there—the Bolshies, I mean. 1923D. H. Lawrence Kangaroo i. 1 A comical-looking bloke! Perhaps a Bolshy. 1940‘G. Orwell’ in Horizon Mar. 187 If the Russian Revolution is anywhere referred to it will be indirectly, in the word ‘Bolshy’ (meaning a person of violent disagreeable habits).
B. attrib. or as adj.
a. = Bolshevistic a.
b. transf. and fig. Left-wing; uncooperative, recalcitrant.
1918D. H. Lawrence Lett. (1962) I. 565 The railway people, when one travels, seem rather independent and Bolshy. 1922T. E. Lawrence Lett. (1939) 382 My nature doesn't second the demands of discipline very well, and unless I keep working at something I get Bolshie! 1930H. G. Wells Autocr. Mr. Parham iii. vi. 208 The young men of science, the clever ones, are all going Bolshy or worse. Ibid. iv. iv. 296 Street-corner boys and Bolshie agitators. 1934G. B. Shaw On the Rocks ii. 231 Lenin and Stalin and Trotsky and all that Bolshy lot. 1966New Statesman 1 Apr. 473/1 The neglected dullards not unnaturally turn bolshy. 1969D. Clark Nobody's Perfect v. 156 You can stop looking so bolshie, because I think you've done what you did well enough.
Hence ˈbolshiness, obstructive or recalcitrant behaviour; political or temperamental disinclination to obey authority.
1975Economist 14 June 22/2 Trading off bolshiness on these outstanding issues—and on EEC quotas and prices for New Zealand butter..—against good behaviour on others will be hard. 1985Times 12 Apr. 2/3 Poor production at the three pits has been caused by ‘bolshiness’ at the end of the miners' strike. |