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bolshie

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈbɒl.ʃi/Part of speech nounSorted behilosStarts with BEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries

Word origin

From Bolshevik (Russian большеви́к (bolʹševík), the socialist party in the 1918 Russian Revolution, from Russian большевики́ (bolʹševikí, “majority faction”), + -ie.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.

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