stiff-backed

English

Adjective

stiff-backed (comparative more stiff-backed, superlative most stiff-backed)

1. obstinate
   • 1855, John Henry Newman, Callista:

     Do you fall in with some sour-visaged, stiff-backed worshipper of the Furies?

References

“stiff-backed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.