| 释义 |
stiff /stif/ adjective- Not easily bent
- Rigid
- Lacking suppleness
- Moved or moving with difficulty or friction
- Dead
- Approaching solidity
- Thick, viscous, not fluid
- Dense, difficult to mould or cut
- Resistant
- Difficult
- Tough, tiring, arduous
- Pertinacious
- Stubborn
- Formidable
- (of an alcoholic drink) strong
- (of a breeze) blowing strongly
- Firm, high, or inclining to rise (in price, etc)
- Excessive
- Not natural and easy
- Constrained
- Formal
- Keeping upright (nautical)
- Certain (not to run, to win, to lose; slang)
- Unlucky (esp Aust)
- (used predicatively) to an extreme degree, as in bore or scare someone stiff
adverb- Stiffly
- Stark
- Very, extremely (informal)
noun (slang)- Someone who or something that is stiff
- A corpse
- A good-for-nothing
- A racehorse that is a notably poor bet
- A customer who fails to tip
- A negotiable paper
- A forged paper
- An illegal letter sent or received by a prisoner
transitive verb (slang)- To cheat
- To rob
- To fail to tip
- To murder
- To cause to fail, get nowhere (also intransitive verb)
ORIGIN: OE stīf stiff; Du stijf, Ger steif stiffˈen transitive verb and intransitive verb To make or become stiff or stiffer stiffˈener noun - A person who or thing that stiffens
- A strong alcoholic drink (informal)
- A cigarette card or the like, used to stiffen a package
stiffˈening noun and adjective stiffˈish adjective stiffˈly adverb stiffˈness noun - The state or quality of being stiff
- In a mechanical vibrating system, the restoring force per unit of displacement (the reciprocal of compliance)
stiffˈy or stiffˈie noun - An erect penis (vulgar sl)
- Someone who is physically not very fit or agile (Scot)
stiffˈ-arm noun (sport) An act of fending off an opponent while keeping the arm straight and the palm unclenched transitive verb To fend off (an opponent) in this way stiff bit noun A horse's jointless bit stiffˈ-hearted adjective (Bible) Obstinate, stubborn stiff neck noun - A condition affecting the neck muscles, making it painful to turn the head
- Torticollis
stiffˈ-necked adjective - Obstinate
- Haughty
- Formal and unnatural
stiffˈ-neckedˈness noun stiffˈware noun (comput sl) Software that is no longer flexible, having been customized or having incomplete documentation or an obscure function and therefore being difficult to modify or remove without risk to other programs a stiff upper lip see under lip stiff with (informal) Full of, crowded with |