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If someone is bolshie, they get when people tell them what to do, and they push back. They argue. They stall. They will not just obey. It is not usually about hitting anyone — it is a stubborn, mood. You can have a bolshie worker, a bolshie teenager, or just a bolshie afternoon. The word is British and informal; older speakers use it more than young ones. Though actually, it started as a nickname from Bolshevik, the Russian revolutionary party. In ordinary talk now it does not mean “this person is a communist.” It has gone softer: “this person will not do as they are told.” People also stretch it a little — a bolshie email, a bolshie look — still the same idea of rude push-back.
愛唱反調、不聽話、難搞(英式口語)
組成From Bolshevik (the Russian party in the 1918 revolution, from Russian for the “majority” group) + the informal ending -ie.
同家族的字
- Bolshevikthe party name this nickname was cut down from
- bolshinessthe noun: the quality of being bolshie
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
bolshienoun/ˈbɒl.ʃi/
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derogatorydatedA government leftist, especially a communist, socialist, or labour union leader.
bolshieadj/ˈbɒl.ʃi/
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Difficult or rebellious.
- Kate, don't be so bolshie!
- It's quite possible that I and my pals were nasty bolshy little schoolboys who thoroughly deserved to be thrashed through the gorse bushes in the dead of the night[.]
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。