stiff

Etymology
From, , , from , from , from , from.

See also 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬; also 🇨🇬,, from which English.

The expected Modern English form would be ; is probably originally from compounds such as, where the vowel was shortened before a consonant cluster.

Adjective

 * 1)  Rigid; hard to bend; inflexible.
 * 2)  Inflexible; rigid.
 * 3)  Formal in behavior; unrelaxed.
 * 4)  Harsh, severe.
 * 5)  Painful as a result of excessive or unaccustomed exercise.
 * 6) Potent.
 * 7)  Dead, deceased.
 * 8)  Erect.
 * 9) Having a dense consistency; thick;  Difficult to stir.
 * 10)  Beaten until so aerated that they stand up straight on their own.
 * 11)  Of an equation, for which certain numerical solving methods are numerically unstable, unless the step size is taken to be extremely small.
 * 12)  Keeping upright.
 * 13)  Of a shot, landing so close to the flagstick that it should be very easy to sink the ball with the next shot.
 * 14)  Delivered more forcefully than needed, whether intentionally or accidentally, thus causing legitimate pain to the opponent.
 * 1)  Erect.
 * 2) Having a dense consistency; thick;  Difficult to stir.
 * 3)  Beaten until so aerated that they stand up straight on their own.
 * 4)  Of an equation, for which certain numerical solving methods are numerically unstable, unless the step size is taken to be extremely small.
 * 5)  Keeping upright.
 * 6)  Of a shot, landing so close to the flagstick that it should be very easy to sink the ball with the next shot.
 * 7)  Delivered more forcefully than needed, whether intentionally or accidentally, thus causing legitimate pain to the opponent.
 * 1)  Keeping upright.
 * 2)  Of a shot, landing so close to the flagstick that it should be very easy to sink the ball with the next shot.
 * 3)  Delivered more forcefully than needed, whether intentionally or accidentally, thus causing legitimate pain to the opponent.
 * 1)  Delivered more forcefully than needed, whether intentionally or accidentally, thus causing legitimate pain to the opponent.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: থিৰ, ঠেৰেঙা
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: irto, rixo
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: 딱딱한
 * Lao:
 * Latin: rigidus, rigens
 * Latvian: stīvs, stings, stingrs
 * Mongolian:
 * Nepali: कडा,, दह्रो
 * Norman: rigide
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: stiv
 * Plautdietsch: stiew
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, , , , ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: rag
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: pšosty
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:, rhyn
 * White Hmong:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: rag
 * Spanish: ,
 * Welsh:, rhyn,


 * Catalan: encarcarat, cerimoniós
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: teso,
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: stalcánta
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: rag
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: pšosty
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:
 * Welsh:, rhyn,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: hard
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Welsh:, rhyn


 * Bulgarian:, вдървен
 * Chinese:
 * Hokkien: nan-hbl
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Maori: ioio, koio, taui
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: rag
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: pšosty
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * Russian: ,


 * Bulgarian: надървен
 * French:
 * Maori: tora
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: stiv


 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua: ,
 * Italian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ,
 * Swedish: ,

Noun

 * 1)  An average person, usually male, of no particular distinction, skill, or education.
 * 2)  A person who is deceived, as a mark or pigeon in a swindle.
 * 3)  A cadaver; a dead person.
 * 4)  A flop; a commercial failure.
 * 5)  A person who leaves (especially a restaurant) without paying the bill.
 * 6)  A customer who does not leave a tip.
 * 7)  Any hard hand where it is possible to exceed 21 by drawing an additional card.
 * 8)  Negotiable instruments, possibly forged.
 * 9)  A note or letter surreptitiously sent by an inmate.
 * 1)  A person who leaves (especially a restaurant) without paying the bill.
 * 2)  A customer who does not leave a tip.
 * 3)  Any hard hand where it is possible to exceed 21 by drawing an additional card.
 * 4)  Negotiable instruments, possibly forged.
 * 5)  A note or letter surreptitiously sent by an inmate.
 * 1)  Negotiable instruments, possibly forged.
 * 2)  A note or letter surreptitiously sent by an inmate.

Translations

 * Finnish:, , ,
 * Japanese: オッサン


 * Finnish:
 * Japanese:
 * Russian:


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: Steifer
 * Irish: stiúgaí
 * Polish:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: ,


 * German:
 * Japanese: ;

Verb

 * 1) To fail to pay that which one owes (implicitly or explicitly) to another, especially by departing hastily.
 * 2) To cheat someone
 * 3) To tip ungenerously.
 * 4)  To kill.
 * 5)  To be unsuccessful.
 * 1) To tip ungenerously.
 * 2)  To kill.
 * 3)  To be unsuccessful.
 * 1)  To be unsuccessful.
 * 1)  To be unsuccessful.

Translations

 * Finnish: tehdä oharit
 * German:
 * Japanese: 払い忘れる
 * Swedish:


 * Romanian: țepui


 * German:

Adverb

 * 1)  Of the wind, with great force; strongly.

Etymology
From, from , from.

Adjective

 * 1) stiff