stiffish
English
Etymology
stiff + -ish
Adjective
stiffish (not comparable)
- 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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Translations
somewhat stiff
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