Strippy vs Stroppy - What's the difference?
strippy | stroppy |
(quilting) Sewn in vertical columns separated by bars of colour.
A quilt sewn in vertical columns separated by bars of colour. (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,
* 2010 , Gillian Bloxham, W. Doyle Gentry, Anger Management For Dummies , UK Edition,
* 2010 , Alexandra Bell, Rising to the Deadline: One Woman's Sexy Climb to the Top in Newspapers , Trafford Publishing, Canada,
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As adjectives the difference between strippy and stroppy
is that strippy is sewn in vertical columns separated by bars of colour while stroppy is ornery, fractious, belligerent, or obstreperous, and hence difficult to deal with.As a noun strippy
is a quilt sewn in vertical columns separated by bars of colour.strippy
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- Her shape and posture shadowed her daughter?s, though Kerry carried herself with more attitude, a stroppier jutting of the hips than her mother.
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- Even today, women who show signs of anger and who express themselves in some assertive way may be labelled stroppy for doing so.
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- The people who actually produced the paper, mainly the printers, were a stroppier lot, with a more aggressive union.
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- 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.