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Stiff   /stɪf/   Listen
Stiff

adjective
(compar. stiffer; superl. stiffest)
1.
Not moving or operating freely.
2.
Powerful.  "A stiff breeze"
3.
Rigidly formal.  Synonyms: buckram, starchy.  "The letter was stiff and formal" , "His prose has a buckram quality"
4.
Having a strong physiological or chemical effect.  Synonyms: potent, strong.  "Potent liquor" , "A potent cup of tea" , "A stiff drink"
5.
Marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable.  Synonyms: firm, steadfast, steady, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering.  "A firm mouth" , "Steadfast resolve" , "A man of unbendable perseverence" , "Unwavering loyalty"
6.
Incapable of or resistant to bending.  Synonym: rigid.  "A table made of rigid plastic" , "A palace guardsman stiff as a poker" , "Stiff hair" , "A stiff neck"
7.
Very drunk.  Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, tight, wet.
noun
1.
An ordinary man.  "A working stiff"
2.
The dead body of a human being.  Synonyms: cadaver, clay, corpse, remains.  "The end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse" , "The murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river" , "Honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay"
adverb
1.
Extremely.  "Frightened stiff"
2.
In a stiff manner.  Synonym: stiffly.



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"Stiff" Quotes from Famous Books



... gave a farewell glance about my little-used library. It was then about the fifth hour. Agathemer gazing rather outside at the landscape than inside at the room remained frozen stiff, staring northward ...
— Andivius Hedulio • Edward Lucas White
... whip her at all wuz she wuz cross to him. They had nine little children, she thought two or three children would be about all one woman could bring up well by hand, when that hand wuz so stiff and sore ...
— Samantha on the Woman Question • Marietta Holley
... goodman Theophilus buried; he was the best Nutcracker that ever dwelt in Enfield. Well, tis 9. a clock, tis time to ring curfew. Lord bless us, what a white thing is that in the Church porch! O Lord, my legs are too weak for my body, my hair is too stiff for my night-cap, my heart fails; this is the ghost of Theophilus. O Lord, it follows me! I cannot say my prayers, and one would give me a thousand pound. Good spirit, I have bowled and drunk and followed the hounds with you a thousand times, though I have not the ...
— The Merry Devil • William Shakespeare
... where I was layin' it was an almighty hard job to throw that loop around the axe handle, an' I reckon I must 'a' tried twenty times before I finally made to throw it over. Then I started pullin' easy-like on the belt to tighten the loop, so it would hold on the slippery handle. The belt was a leetle stiff, though, an' the loop wouldn't tighten very close. When I tried to pull in on it, the axe stuck in the crust that covered the softer snow underneath, an' the belt slipped ...
— Bert Wilson in the Rockies • J. W. Duffield
... suddenly exclaimed Jimmy. "Well only get lame and stiff staying here, I feel as if I'd been rolled down hill in a ...
— The Khaki Boys Over the Top - Doing and Daring for Uncle Sam • Gordon Bates


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