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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bolshie /ˈbɒlʃi/ (also bolshy) Brit. informal

▶adjective deliberately combative or uncooperative. ▶noun (Bolshie) dated a Bolshevik or socialist.

– derivatives
bolshiness noun.

– origin early 20th cent.: abbrev. of Bolshevik.

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