Modifying Another Word

• very: He argued that Timothy needed some ammunition in dealing with some very stroppy people in the church at Ephesus.

• so: Why Dee fans should be so stroppy with each other I have no idea.

• quite: Unfortunately Morphy didn't think so, and he got quite stroppy as we took a stranglehold of the Universe.

• really: He gets really stroppy if you don't feed him.

• slightly: In Press Gang, a young Julia Sawalha played Lynda Day, the assertive, yet slightly stroppy editor of the Junior Gazette.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• get: I am told five year olds can get a bit stroppy.

Modifies a noun

• teenager: I suspect largely because it is young and different, and behaves a bit like a stroppy teenager at times.

• woman: As a stroppy, anarchic young woman I rebelled against the whole nuclear family with 2.4 children thing.

• customer: It gives purpose to everything from dealing with a stroppy customer to feeding a baby in the middle of the night.

• people: He argued that Timothy needed some ammunition in dealing with some very stroppy people in the church at Ephesus.

• teen: However, the stroppy teen doesn't seem too concerned over the deaths: " I was an orphan the day I was born!

• behavior: The staff at Well Stacked Pizza are not the kind to take stroppy behavior from customers.

Used with adjective complement

• get: Now don't get stroppy, I'm finished.