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Grumpy vs Stroppy - What's the difference?

grumpy | stroppy |

As adjectives the difference between grumpy and stroppy

is that grumpy is unhappy, dissatisfied and/or irritable while stroppy is (uk|australia|new zealand|slang) ornery, fractious, belligerent, or obstreperous, and hence difficult to deal with.

grumpy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Unhappy, dissatisfied and/or irritable.
    • Tommy feels grumpy today because his friend stole his ball.
    Michael Finnell was grumpy''', but became even '''grumpier when the Celtics lost.

    Synonyms

    * grouchy * surly * truculent

    stroppy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) Ornery, fractious, belligerent, or obstreperous, and hence difficult to deal with.
  • * 2004 , Simon Brett, The Hanging in the Hotel , Pan Macmillan UK, unnumbered page,
    • Her shape and posture shadowed her daughter?s, though Kerry carried herself with more attitude, a stroppier jutting of the hips than her mother.
  • * 2010 , Gillian Bloxham, W. Doyle Gentry, Anger Management For Dummies , UK Edition, unnumbered page,
    • Even today, women who show signs of anger and who express themselves in some assertive way may be labelled stroppy for doing so.
  • * 2010 , Alexandra Bell, Rising to the Deadline: One Woman's Sexy Climb to the Top in Newspapers , Trafford Publishing, Canada, page 140,
    • The people who actually produced the paper, mainly the printers, were a stroppier lot, with a more aggressive union.
  • * 2010 , , page 341,
    • Davina told me earlier that Luke was the stroppiest patient she?d ever had and that he?d given her a lecture on how ineflicient and time-wasting her medical was.

    Derived terms

    * stroppily * stroppiness

    See also

    * strop (unrelated)