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English
Etymology
From stiff + -ish.
Adjective
stiffish (not comparable)
- Somewhat stiff (all senses).
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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