a. [f. STIVE v.3 + -Y.] Stuffy.
1849. Alb. Smith, Pottleton Legacy, xxvi. 280. Kind spinsters are always found … to shut themselves up in stivy rooms on hot Sunday summer afternoons.
1899. M. Hewlett, in Blackw. Mag., Feb., 339/1. The sun of her smile was like a clean breath in the stivy den.
