stiffish

English

Etymology

stiff +‎ -ish

Adjective

stiffish (not comparable)

  1. quite stiff (all meanings)
    • 1849, Mayne Reid, The Flag of Distress‎:
      Even the shabbiest of shore-boats, hired for the shortest time, exacts a stiffish fare.
    • 1862, Edwin Waugh, Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine‎:
      Th' main sewer will have to be brought clean across i' this direction, an' it'll be a stiffish job.
    • 1913, Captain R. F. Scott, Scott's Last Expedition Volume I‎:
      Ahead of us to-night is a stiffish incline and it looks as though there might be pressure behind it.

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