English

Adjective

stiffish ‎(not comparable)

1. 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.