Stiff

Adjective

 * 1) Of an object, rigid, hard to bend, inflexible.
 * 2)  Of policies and rules and their application and enforcement, inflexible.
 * 3) Of a person, formal in behavior, unrelaxed.
 * 4)  Harsh, severe.
 * He was eventually caught, and given a stiff fine.
 * 1) Of muscles, or parts of the body, painful, as a result of excessive, or unaccustomed exercise.
 * My legs are stiff after climbing that hill yesterday.
 * 1) potent.
 * A stiff drink; a stiff dose; a stiff breeze.
 * 1) dead, deceased.
 * 2) Of a penis, erect.

Derived terms

 * stiffy

Noun

 * 1) An average person, usually male, of no particular distinction, skill, or education, often a working stiff or lucky stiff.
 * A Working Stiff's Manifesto: A Memoir of Thirty Jobs I Quit, Nine That Fired Me, and Three I Can't Remember was published in 2003.
 * 1) A person who is deceived, as a mark or pigeon in a swindle.
 * She convinced the stiff to go to her hotel room, where her henchman was waiting to rob him.
 * 1)  A cadaver, a dead person.
 * 2) 🇺🇸 A person who leaves (especially a restaurant) without paying the bill.

Verb

 * 1) To fail to pay that which one owes (implicitly or explicitly) to another, especially by departing hastily.
 * Realizing he had forgotten his wallet, he stiffed the taxi driver when the cab stopped for a red light.
 * 1) * 1946, William Foote Whyte, Industry and Society, page 129
 * We asked one girl to explain how she felt when she was "stiffed." She said, You think of all the work you've done and how you've tried to please [them…].
 * 1) * 1992, Stephen Birmingham, Shades of Fortune, page 451
 * You see, poor Nonie really was stiffed by Adolph in his will. He really stiffed her, Rose, and I really wanted to right that wrong.
 * 1) * 2007, Mary Higgins Clark, I Heard That Song Before, page 154
 * Then he stiffed the waiter with a cheap tip.

Thesaurus
Arab, Bowery bum, Latinate, a bit much, abandoned, abusive, adamant, adamantine, afflictive, alcoholic, all thumbs, aloof, arduous, arid, artificial, ashes, austere, awkward, balker, balky horse, barren, beach bum, beachcomber, beggar, beggarly fellow, blah, blank, blighter, blind, blind drunk, bloodless, blotto, blue-collar worker, blunderheaded, blundering, bo, body, bold, bombastic, bones, boorish, boundless, breadwinner, brisk, brittle, buckram, budmash, bum, bumbling, bummer, bungling, butterfingered, cadaver, caitiff, carcass, careless, carrion, cartilaginous, cast-iron, casual, casual laborer, ceremonious, challenging, characterless, cheapskate, chewy, chilly, clay, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, cohesive, cold, colorless, common laborer, compact, cool, coriaceous, corpse, corpus delicti, costly, cramped, crock, crowbait, cruel, cumbersome, cumbrous, day laborer, dead, dead as mutton, dead body, dead man, dead person, dear, dear-bought, decedent, dense, derelict, determined, devil, difficult, dismal, distressing, dog, dogged, dogie, dour, draggy, drastic, drearisome, dreary, drifter, drunkard, dry, dry bones, dryasdust, dull, durable, dust, dusty, earth, effete, egregious, elephantine, embalmed corpse, employee, empty, energetic, enormous, etiolated, exaggerated, excessive, excruciating, exhausting, exorbitant, expensive, extravagant, extreme, fabulous, factory worker, fade, fancy, fatiguing, fibrous, fingers all thumbs, firm, fit for sea, flat, flinty, flunky, food for worms, forced, forceful, formal, free lance, free-lancer, fresh, full-time worker, fumbling, fundamentalist, gamin, gamine, garron, gauche, gawkish, gawky, gigantic, gluttonous, goat, gone to seed, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, graceless, grim, gristly, guinde, gusty, guttersnipe, hack, had, halting, ham-fisted, ham-handed, hand, hard, hard-core, hardened, hardy, harrowing, harsh, haughty, heavy, heavy-handed, helpless, hidebound, high, high-priced, ho-hum, hobo, hollow, homeless waif, howling, hulking, hulky, human wreck, hurtful, hyperbolic, hypertrophied, idler, immoderate, immovable, immutable, implacable, impliable, in buckram, inane, incontinent, indomitable, industrial worker, inelastic, inelegant, inexcitable, inexorable, inflexible, inkhorn, inordinate, insipid, intemperate, intense, intransigent, iron, ironbound, ironclad, ironhanded, irreconcilable, jade, jejune, jobber, jobholder, jughead, labored, laborer, laboring man, laborious, landloper, lasting, late lamented, lazzarone, leaden, leatherlike, leathery, left-hand, left-handed, lifeless, loafer, losel, loutish, low-spirited, lowlife, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, luxurious, maladroit, mannered, mauvais sujet, mean wretch, menial, merciless, migrant, miser, moiler, monstrous, mortal remains, mucker, mudlark, mummification, mummy, muscle-bound, nag, navvy, no-good, not affordable, oafish, obdurate, obstinate, of great cost, office temporary, on the downgrade, organic remains, orthodox, out, out cold, out of bounds, out of condition, out of shape, out of sight, out of training, outrageous, overbig, overcome, overdeveloped, overgreat, overgrown, overlarge, overmuch, overpowering, overweening, overwhelming, painful, pale, pallid, paralyzed, passed out, pauvre diable, pedantic, pedestrian, petrified, piker, pilgarlic, plodding, plug, pointless, pokerlike, poky, pompous, ponderous, poor creature, poor devil, potent, powerful, premium, pricey, prim, procrustean, proletarian, punishing, punitive, purist, puristic, puritan, puritanic, ragamuffin, ragman, ragpicker, ramrodlike, relentless, relics, reliquiae, remains, renitent, reserved, resistant, resolute, resolved, rich, rigid, rigorist, rigoristic, rigorous, roarer, rock-ribbed, rockbound, rodlike, rogue, ropy, rosinante, rough, rounder, roustabout, run to seed, rusty, sad case, sad sack, salaried worker, scalawag, sea-kindly, seaworthy, self-employed person, servant, sesquipedalian, severe, sinewy, skeleton, ski bum, skid-row bum, skinflint, slipping, sloppy, slow, snobbish, snooty, snug, soft, solemn, solid, solidified, spanking, spiritless, standoffish, starch, starched, starchy, stark, staunch, steady, steely, steep, sterile, stern, stiff as buckram, stiffened, stilted, stodgy, stone-cold, stone-dead, stoned, straightlaced, straitlaced, stray, street Arab, street urchin, stringy, strong, stubborn, stuffy, sumptuous, sundowner, superficial, surf bum, swagman, swagsman, tasteless, tatterdemalion, taut, tedious, temporary, tenacious, tender, tenement of clay, tennis bum, tense, the dead, the deceased, the defunct, the departed, the loved one, thick, tight, tightwad, tiring, toiler, toilsome, too much, top, tormenting, torturous, tough, tough as leather, tramp, truant, turgid, turnpiker, unaffected, unalterable, unbearable, unbending, unbridled, unchangeable, uncompromising, unconscionable, uncouth, under the table, undue, unflexible, unfriendly, ungainly, ungiving, ungraceful, unhandy, unlively, unmoved, unpayable, unreasonable, unrelaxed, unrelenting, unrestrained, untiring, unwieldy, unyielding, uphill, uptight, urchin, vag, vagabond, vagrant, vapid, vaurien, vigorous, virgate, viscid, wage earner, wage slave, wageworker, waif, waifs and strays, wastrel, waterproof, watertight, weatherly, whistler, wiry, wooden, worker, workgirl, workhand, working girl, workingman, workingwoman, workman, worthless fellow, wretch

Etymology
stif:, from, from (compare  stipare:, from which English stevedore:).

Adjective

 * Catalan: rígid
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 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:


 * Russian:, негибкий
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Volapük: stifik


 * Finnish:
 * Italian: ,
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 * Russian:, непоколебимый, непреклонный
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Catalan: encarcarat
 * Finnish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:


 * Russian:, чопорный
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Finnish:
 * Italian: ;


 * Japanese:
 * Russian: строгий,


 * Czech:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 凝る
 * Russian: окостеневший, одеревенелый
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * : твърд (1)
 * : stug
 * : raide, rigide
 * : kaku, keras
 * : rigide, inflexibile
 * : rigido
 * : duro, rígido
 * : tieso, rígido
 * : styv, strikt
 * : styv, strikt

Noun

 * Finnish:, , heebo


 * Japanese: オッサン


 * Finnish:
 * Japanese: カモ


 * Russian:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:


 * German: Steifer
 * Russian:, жмурик


 * German:
 * Japanese: 食い逃げ;   無銭飲食

Verb

 * German: prellen
 * Japanese: 払い忘れる


 * Swedish: sjappa


 * Romanian: a țepui

Anagrams

 * tiffs