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STIFF
Surname or Lastname
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.
Surname or Lastname
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.
Surname or Lastname
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.
Surname or Lastname
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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Girl/Female
Danish, German, Hindu, Indian, Latin, Marathi, Punjabi, Sikh, Swahili, Swedish, Telugu
Richness; Beauty; Diamond; Gold; Platinum; Wealth; God's Gift of Love; Money; Goddess Saraswati / Lakshmi
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Humble
Girl/Female
Hindu
Desirable, Beautiful, Affectionate, A beautiful woman
Boy/Male
Christian & English(British/American/Australian)
Bearer of Treasure
Boy/Male
English
Right-hand son. Also a.
Boy/Male
Tamil
Born of danu, A danava
Female
English
English name derived from the vocabulary word, queen, from Old English cwen "queen," from Germanic kwen, QUEEN means "wife."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Chadwick.
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Saint
Girl/Female
Australian, Christian, German, Greek, Kurdish, Latin, Polish
Renowned Protector; Pretty Rose; Form of Rosalind; Tender Horse; Horse Protection
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superl.
Very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff charge; a stiff price.
a.
Somewhat stiff.
n.
The quality or state of being stiff-necked; stubbornness.
imp. & p. p.
of Stiffen
superl.
Not natural and easy; formal; constrained; affected; starched; as, stiff behavior; a stiff style.
n.
One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.
superl.
Not liquid or fluid; thick and tenacious; inspissated; neither soft nor hard; as, the paste is stiff.
superl.
Firm; strong; violent; difficult to oppose; as, a stiff gale or breeze.
n.
The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character.
superl.
Not easily subdued; unyielding; stubborn; obstinate; pertinacious; as, a stiff adversary.
adv.
In a stiff manner.
a.
Stubborn; inflexibly obstinate; contumacious; as, stiff-necked pride; a stiff-necked people.
v. t.
To inspissate; to make more thick or viscous; as, to stiffen paste.
v. t.
To make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch.
superl.
Not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not limber or flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints.
n.
Something used to make anything stiff.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Stiffen
v. i.
To become stiff or stiffer, in any sense of the adjective.
n.
Act or process of making stiff.
superl.
Bearing a press of canvas without careening much; as, a stiff vessel; -- opposed to crank.