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English
English : nickname from Middle English stif ‘rigid’, ‘inflexible’, hence a nickname for someone who had difficulty in bending. The term was also used in a transferred sense of character (generally in the approving sense ‘resolute’, ‘steadfast’) from the 12th century, and this use may lie behind many examples of the surname.
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German
German : from a short form of the personal name Steffen, a German form of Latin Stephanus (see Steven).English : nickname for a resolute or obstinate person, from Middle English stef ‘stiff’, ‘unyielding’.
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German and Dutch
German and Dutch : nickname from Middle High German nac, nacke, Middle Dutch necke ‘neck’, perhaps denoting someone with a stiff neck, in either the literal or figurative sense.English : from the Old Norse personal name Hnaki.
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English
English : habitational name from Stiffkey in Norfolk (pronounced Stuckey), so named from Old English styfic ‘tree stumps’ + ēg ‘island’ or ‘higher ground in a marsh’.Americanized spelling of German Stucki.
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n.
Act or process of making stiff.
superl.
Not natural and easy; formal; constrained; affected; starched; as, stiff behavior; a stiff style.
superl.
Firm; strong; violent; difficult to oppose; as, a stiff gale or breeze.
superl.
Bearing a press of canvas without careening much; as, a stiff vessel; -- opposed to crank.
a.
Stubborn; inflexibly obstinate; contumacious; as, stiff-necked pride; a stiff-necked people.
n.
Something used to make anything stiff.
a.
Somewhat stiff.
n.
One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.
n.
The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character.
adv.
In a stiff manner.
v. i.
To become stiff or stiffer, in any sense of the adjective.
superl.
Very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff charge; a stiff price.
v. t.
To make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch.
superl.
Not easily subdued; unyielding; stubborn; obstinate; pertinacious; as, a stiff adversary.
imp. & p. p.
of Stiffen
p. pr. & vb. n.
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superl.
Not liquid or fluid; thick and tenacious; inspissated; neither soft nor hard; as, the paste is stiff.
v. t.
To inspissate; to make more thick or viscous; as, to stiffen paste.
superl.
Not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not limber or flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints.
n.
The quality or state of being stiff-necked; stubbornness.