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1. Obstreperous
   "However you are perfectly entitled to get bolshy if you can't have what you want";
   - stroppy [Brit, informal], bolshie [Brit, informal]

1. An emotionally charged term used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries
   - Bolshevik, Marxist, red, bolshie [Brit, informal]

Derived forms: bolshies, bolshiest

See also: obstinate, stubborn, unregenerate

Type of: rad [informal], radical

Encyclopedia: Bolshy