a. [-ISH1.] Rather stiff.

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1733.  W. Ellis, Chiltern & Vale Farm., 266. A stiffish, loamy, moist Soil.

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1769.  Mrs. Raffald, Engl. Housekpr. (1778), 245. Dip a lump of … sugar in water, boil it stiffish.

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1840.  Hood, Open Question, 41. Some stiffish people think that smoking joints Are carnal sins ’twixt Saturday and Monday.

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1890.  ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Col. Reformer, xxix. I’d given him [a horse] some stiffish days after the farthest out cattle.

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1911.  Marett, Anthropol., ii. 41. It is not far, though a stiffish pull, to Ash.

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1915.  Ld. Redesdale, Memories, I. 111. I quite admit that there ought to be a stiffish examination of the nominees.

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