stroppy

adj

1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang)Ornery, fractious, belligerent, or obstreperous, and hence difficult to deal with.

   “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.”

   “Her shape and posture shadowed her daughter′s, though Kerry carried herself with more attitude, a stroppier jutting of the hips than her mother.”

   “Even today, women who show signs of anger and who express themselves in some assertive way may be labelled stroppy for doing so.”

   “The people who actually produced the paper, mainly the printers, were a stroppier lot, with a more aggressive union.”

   “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.”