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bolshie
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synonyms: refractory, obstreperous, recalcitrant ???
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Definition:{n} (derogatory, Britain, dated) A government leftist, especially a communist, socialist, or labour union leader.{adj} (Britain) Difficult or rebellious.text from Wiktionary, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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Melchett: [...]You'll recall the French army last year at Verdun where the top echelons suffered from horrendous uprisings from the bottom.
Blackadder: Yes sir, but surely that was traced to a shipment of garlic éclairs.
Melchett: Nonsense Blackadder! It was bolshiness. Plain bolshiness! And now that the Ruskies have followed suit, I'm damned if I can let the same thing happen here.
BBC. Blackadder, season 4: Major Star
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A Bolshevist hen, always at the bottom of any disturbance in the fowl-run, a bird which ate its head off daily at our expense and bit the hands which fed it by resolutely declining to lay a single egg.
P. G. Wodehouse. Love Among the Chickens A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm (1909)
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