BOLSHIE

adj. & n. (also Bolshy) sl.

--adj. (usu. bolshie)

1. uncooperative, rebellious, awkward; bad-tempered.

2 left-wing, socialist.

--n. (pl. -ies) a Bolshevik.

Derivatives:

bolshiness n. (in sense 1 of adj.).

Etymology: abbr.