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Stroppier vs Strappier - What's the difference?

stroppier | strappier |

As adjectives the difference between stroppier and strappier

is that stroppier is comparative of stroppy while strappier is comparative of strappy.

stroppier

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (stroppy)

    • 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)

    strappier

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (strappy)

    • strappy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Of clothing, featuring or characterized by straps.
  • *2003 , Cindy Pearlman, Chicago Sun-Times , 14 Sep 2003:
  • *:Looking luminous in a yellow, strappy Cavalli dress with her sun-kissed hair cascading down her back, the pop star-turned-actress demands that the reporter shake her groove thing like Beyonce does in her hit video "Crazy in Love."
  • *2006 , Hadley Freeman, The Guardian , 3 Mar 2006:
  • *:The click-click-click of strappy stilettos has given way to the clomp-clomp-clomp of platforms and wedges on the Milan catwalk.
  • *2010 , Laura Bush, Spoken From the Heart :
  • *:We read newspaper accounts of the Reagans' black-tie evenings, where the women wore long, shimmering gowns and strappy high heels and everyone toasted equally elegant foreign guests.