LekhoriLekhoriRigid; hard to bend; inflexible.
“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;[…]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
Inflexible; rigid.
Formal in behavior; unrelaxed.
An average person, usually male, of no particular distinction, skill, or education.
working stiff
A person who is deceived, as a mark or pigeon in a swindle.
To fail to pay that which one owes (implicitly or explicitly) to another, especially by departing hastily.
He stiffed me on the tip.
Of the wind, with great force; strongly.
At Feversham was a very High Tide in the Afternoon, tho' the Wind was Southerly, and blew very stiff, which the Seamen there wondered at.
A surname.
From Middle English stiff, stiffe, stif, from Old English stīf, from Proto-West Germanic *stīf, from Proto-Germanic *stīfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steypós. See also West Frisian stiif, Dutch stijf...
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She convinced the stiff to go to her hotel room, where her henchman was waiting to rob him.
To cheat someone.
You see, poor Nonie really was stiffed by Adolph in his will. He really stiffed her, Rose, and I really wanted to right that wrong.
To tip ungenerously.
Then he stiffed the waiter with a cheap tip.