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/ˈbɒl.ʃi/ · noun
(derogatory, British, dated) A government leftist, especially a communist, socialist, or labour union leader..
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[.]
Rachel came in, and Nick felt he'd been caught larking about, Catherine squashing him like some bolshie teenage attempt at seduction.
"How I looked or what I was wearing had become more import than my politics, " the 65-year-old told BBC Wales Breakfast. "I can be bolshie if I'm fighting for a cause or for someone else, but deep down I'm very sensitive."
Use bolshie when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Bolshie means (derogatory, British, dated) A government leftist, especially a communist, socialist, or labour union leader..
Common synonyms include contrary, contumacious, perverse, recalcitrant.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Kate, don't be so bolshie!
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