bolshie

noun

1. (British, dated, derogatory)A government leftist, especially a communist, socialist, or labour union leader.

adj

1. (UK)Difficult or rebellious.

   “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.”

   “"How I looked or what I was wearing had become more import than my politics, " the 65-year-old told BBC Wales Breakfast. "I can be bolshie if I'm fighting for a cause or for someone else, but deep down I'm very sensitive."”