bolshy

Other forms of bolshy

plural

bolshies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bolshy

What does bolshy mean?

bolshy means "emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bolshy?

bolshy has 2 syllables: bol-shy. The stress falls on "bol".

What is another word for bolshy?

Close synonyms include Bolshevik, Marxist, red, bolshie, stroppy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bolshy a common word?

bolshy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.