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Stroppy vs Strappy - What's the difference?

stroppy | strappy |

As adjectives the difference between stroppy and strappy

is that stroppy is ornery, fractious, belligerent, or obstreperous, and hence difficult to deal with while strappy is of clothing, featuring or characterized by straps.

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)

    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.