1. I knew she was stroppy , but it's positive. 2. Read the reference, if you want to get stroppy . 3. Gran-Em's grandmother who tends to get very stroppy at times. 4. He looks like a student, but he has the air of an affronted headmaster addressing stroppy schoolboys. 5. His last comparitive " article " ( XP vs Vista ) was speedy deleted and he got very stroppy . 6. Worse, construction is a slow affair, regularly held up by building regulations, stroppy unions and bad weather. 7. Catherine Woulfe from Stuff . co . nz called Mink " mysterious " and a " stroppy surf chick ". 8. Benjamin, despite never winning a captain's quarters challenge and getting all stroppy about it yesterday, wants today to be positive. 9. Professor Anthony King said " When he was a student here, he was very right-wing, pretty stroppy , and very good. 10. I would call that a step in the right direction, not being " negative ", " defiant ", and " stroppy ".