bolshie BrE informal
bolshy BrE informal

'If you put them under enough pressure, if you run at them, they will crack, but I can't be too bolshie about it.'

Anyway, Fiona told him not to be so bolshie, they'll come about twoish and don't forget you promised to give her your recipe for clafoutis.'

His flight plan was accepted straight away, which was a bit of luck, and I watched the metamorphosis of a slightly bolshie Australian journalist into a hard-nosed precise pilot.

Mr Clark observed in a puckish tone that "never has planning policy been so popular an issue for debate", and claimed the British people "are a pretty bolshie lot", who do not like "being dictated to from above", and will resist any attempt by planners to do so.

These bolshy workers these days, demanding a living wage.

For the British are too bolshy, too steeped in the way of democracy, to have an elegant and tidy city.

Union leaders, Bolshy students, banthebombers.

An irresistibly bolshy feminist anthem from the minimalistic duo, turning them into pop sensations before they'd even written a whole set's worth of songs.

For example, the 'model' pupil is one who is always eager to follow the teacher's line of instruction and is never bolshy or bored!

The Daily Telegraph describes her as "bolshy Midlands chav Kelly".

Scoffing and grinning and all you can do is smeck and give people bolshy cowardly tolchocks when they can't give them back.'

He is remembered for his character of the truculent and bolshy maintenance man, Mr. Harman, in Are You Being Served?

And he launched a bolshy tolchock right on my cluve, so that all red red nose- krovvy started to drip drip drip.

They were lashing into these starry old vecks with great bolshy glee and joy, swishing away with malenky whips, creeching: "There, you naughty boys.

A starry reading veck next to me said: "Shhhh," without looking up from some bezoomny mag he had full of drawings of like bolshy geometrical veshches.

These bolshy big figures came nearer and nearer and nearer till they were like going to crush me down, and I could slooshy my goloss going 'Eeeeee'.

Batman will save political prisoners within Arkham City from bolshy thugs, investigate murders using forensics within detective mode, and go up against a variety of more subsidiary villains in a raft of cameos and guest appearances.

But I cracked my back and my wrists and nogas and felt very bolshy pain before I passed out, brothers, with astonished and surprised litsos of chello- vecks in the streets looking at me from above.

Underground rap fans sniffed at this brash, bolshy sound, based not on the breaks-and-samples template of classic hip-hop (partly because licensing samples had become too costly) but favouring instead synthesiser riffs and refrains modelled on techno-rave and 80s pulp movie soundtracks.

I was slooshying more like malenky romantic songs, what they call Lieder, just a goloss and a piano, very quiet and like yearny, different from when it had been all bolshy orchestras and me lying on the bed between the violins and the trombones and kettledrums.

They were served by a very cally devotchka but with very bolshy groodies on her, and some of the eating vecks tried to grab her, going haw haw haw while she went he he he, and the sight of them near made me want to sick, brothers.

And all sorts of like pictures kept like passing through my gulliver, of the different chellovecks I'd met at school and in the Staja, and the different veshches that had happened to me, and how there was not one veck you could trust in the whole bolshy world.