bolshi

plural bolshis · plural bolshies

1. alternativeAlternative form of bolshie.

   Old drunk Yeltsin and all the 'apparatus' behind him are still the old 'bolshis,' only now masquerading to be something else.

   2015, Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin's Daughter, →ISBN, page 614

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   In his conversation with Ribentrop that took place at the beginning of April, 1943 in Hitler's headquarters, the King said from the Bulgarian Jews "he wanted deported only an in significant number who were communists and bolshis.

   1982, Annual - Volume 17, page 321

   We were unaware at the time that the rest of Australia regarded it as a dirty, ugly industrial city inhabited by a lot of 'bolshis' who'd go on strike at the drop of a hat.

   1997, Anne Collett, Lars Jensen, Anna Rutherford, Teaching Post-colonialism and Post-colonial Literatures, page 23

comparative more bolshi · superlative most bolshi

1. alternativeAlternative form of bolshie.

   Olga was getting rather bolshi herself.

   2020, Jim Connibeer, And Dog Created Basingstoke

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   For some a 'bolshi' attitude towards authority was extended to a generalised 'they', usually meaning their bosses but also official bodies.

   1995, Pat Kirkham, David Thoms, War Culture

   So you've got bolshi in your old age, have you? You always were difficult.

   2010, Katie Fforde, Thyme Out, page 1