This week's theme
Interesting usage examples

This week's words
stalagmite
stroppy
pettifogger
Philadelphia lawyer
bailiwick

Discuss this week's words
in our discussion forum:
Wordsmith Talk

---

A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(STROP-ee)

MEANING:

adjective: Bad-tempered, belligerent, or touchy.

ETYMOLOGY:

Possibly from shortening of obstreperous. Earliest documented use: 1951.

USAGE:

"Stroppy Alex Karpenko has told cosmetics giants to shove their big bills for fancy razors -- after teaching himself to shave with a spade."
Ace Of Shaves; Austrian Times; Sep 30, 2011.

See more usage examples of stroppy in Vocabulary.com's dictionary.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: