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单词 stiffy
释义 stiffy U.S. slang.|ˈstɪfɪ|
[f. stiff a. or n. + -y6.]
1. A beggar who pretends to be paralysed.
1917‘A. No. 1’ Coast to Coast with Jack London ii. 22 The fellow..was a hobo. He introduced himself as ‘Stiffy Brandon’. His moniker indicated that for a beggar craft he had chosen the one which imposed upon the credulous..the awful affliction of the paralytic.1956S. Harris Skid Row, U.S.A. ii. 38 Red Bill was the best stiffy in New York.
2. A naïve or stupid person.
1965Liberator (N.Y.) Aug. 23/1 ‘You a trick, Dan—a stiffy,’ Herman said. ‘You so square Little Orphan Annie could put game on you.’Ibid., Stacked broads rushed in on the arms of stiffies straight from the cornfields; you know—them cats with the cowboy hats and ice-cream suits. Some stiffs.1966C. Keil Urban Blues v. 118 Negro artists who find their way into white concert halls still find it necessary to ‘hip’ those ‘stiffies’ in the audience who insist on clapping their hands in a martial manner.




Restrict ‘U.S. slang’ to senses 1 and 2. Add: 3. U.K. slang. A formal invitation card (made of thick cardboard).
1980Sunday Times 20 July 32/2 ‘Here are your Stiffies,’ said the organiser, giving me a wad of party invitations thicker than six chapters of The Rainbow.1987Daily Tel. 27 Oct. 40/7 Nigel [Lawson] had in hand a gilt-edged stiffy for a banquet at the Stock Exchange.




slang. An erection. Cf. hard-on at hard n. 1d.
1983M. Gee Sole Survivor vi. 60 Pretty hot stuff. Ha, saying it's given you a stiffy. Put a cushion over it, that's right.1987A. Maupin Significant Others ii. 17 Her hot Cuban lover with the permanent stiffie.2002Time Out 2 Jan. 135/3 It comes in praise of all things penile,..extending through the problems of unwanted stiffies in the gym changing room.
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