stiffish

English

Etymology

From stiff +‎ -ish.

Adjective

stiffish (not comparable)

1. Somewhat stiff (all senses).
   • 1849, Mayne Reid, The Flag of Distress‎^[1]:

     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^[2]:

     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^[3]:

     Ahead of us to-night is a stiffish incline and it looks as though there might be pressure behind it.

Translations

somewhat stiff

• Maori: mārōrō