| 释义 |
Definition of bolshie in English: bolshie(also bolshy) adjectiveˈbɒlʃi British informal (of a person or attitude) deliberately combative or uncooperative. I was a bolshie teenager, full of argument Example sentencesExamples - I'll admit that the language is clumsy in places, and parts could be read as bolshy.
- Well, she can be as bolshie as Kevin.
- Helen McCrory, plays his partner Rose Fitzgerald, a bolshy barrister who begins the series heavily pregnant with Guthrie's child.
- Ah, London, how I love your freezing tracks, your slippery pavements, your panicky, bolshy commuters, your sullen faces.
- Even his players are openly bolshie, perhaps hoping to distance themselves from a humiliation at Euro 2000.
- But is this a bolshie minority of stick-in-the-muds who don't like change?
- People often wonder why Dr Holloway has such a bolshie streak in him.
- Being the bolshie little fourteen year-olds that we were, we told him ‘Sir, you can't make us do that’.
- Anyone who questions the actions at any level gets known as being bolshie.
- As seems to happen with American soaps, the cast grow bored with being typecast, get bolshy, and push for stories where they can showcase their skills.
- On stage she played a bolshie British student searching for her mother.
- I keep picking careers that demand me to be bolshy and not shy, and that's pretty silly, really.
- It seems that I turn into a bolshy, opinionated and entirely spoilt six-year-old kid at moments like this.
- His story begins in 1972 when Douglas was accosted at a bus stop in Edinburgh by two bolshie 12-year-olds.
- This said, I'm no bolshie hero going to court or engaging in ugly confrontations with inspectors.
- Leah is very loud, very mouthy, a typical bolshie teenager.
- Unsure which way the wind is blowing, the Cabinet is growing bolshy.
- She is the bolshy New York journalist who mixes with politicians and spies.
- As soon as the pest man had finished his work a bolshie member of staff demanded to know what he planned to do with the wasps.
- This does not go down well with the ensemble's increasingly bolshie members who do not seem to recognise the irony of their conservative response to the work of a fellow avant gardist.
Synonyms uncooperative, awkward, contrary, truculent, perverse, difficult, unreasonable, obstructive, disobliging, stubborn, obstinate, unhelpful, recalcitrant, mutinous, refractory, annoying, tiresome, exasperating, trying Scottish thrawn informal bloody-minded, stroppy, cussed, pesky North American informal balky archaic contumacious, froward
nounˈbɒlʃi British dated, informal A Bolshevik or socialist. Example sentencesExamples - Old Bolshies will spin this story to defend Lenin and Communism.
- Had I grown up in, say, the Deep South among ribald Lincoln-bashing economists, there's every reason to believe that I'd be a Bolshie with a love of touch football.
Synonyms left-winger, fabian, syndicalist, utopian socialist
Derivatives noun British informal The increasing bolshiness of the contestants is among the few heartening aspects of the latest run of You're a Star. Example sentencesExamples - I think we may have finally become adults towards each other as there was a lot less bolshiness and a lot more communication than usual.
- Change is needed if we're to recover the variety, energy and general bolshiness of earlier eras and to guarantee the creativity and ambition needed to thrive in the post-call centre world.
- They got a reputation for bolshiness, political dissidence, courage and tenacity that they have never lost.
- She is a slim, pert blonde caught between teenage bolshiness and the last vestiges of childhood.
Origin Early 20th century: abbreviation of Bolshevik. |