stiff

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An average person, usually male, of no particular distinction, skill, or education. Canada,US,countable,slang,uncountable
    — working stiff
  2. A person who is deceived, as a mark or pigeon in a swindle. countable,slang,uncountable
    — She convinced the stiff to go to her hotel room, where her henchman was waiting to rob him.
  3. A cadaver; a dead person. countable,slang,uncountable
    — This parrot is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late parrot! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up the daisies!
  4. A flop; a commercial failure. countable,slang,uncountable
    — If the movie was a stiff it wasn't any of their specific faults. They were all in it together and they were jobbed in and jobbed out for two weeks and gone and they got a pile of money for their efforts.
  5. A person who leaves (especially a restaurant) without paying the bill. US,countable,slang,uncountable
  6. A customer who does not leave a tip. US,broadly,countable,slang,uncountable
  7. Any hard hand where it is possible to exceed 21 by drawing an additional card. countable,uncountable
  8. Negotiable instruments, possibly forged. countable,slang,uncountable
  9. A note or letter surreptitiously sent by an inmate. countable,slang,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To fail to pay that which one owes (implicitly or explicitly) to another, especially by departing hastily.
    — He stiffed me on the tip.
  2. To cheat someone.
    — 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.
  3. To tip ungenerously.
    — Then he stiffed the waiter with a cheap tip.
  4. To kill. slang
    — But you know it could be a hassle / Trying to explain myself to a police officer / About how it was your old lady got herself stiffed
  5. To be unsuccessful. informal
    — "Come To Me" moved but a few to buy a copy; "My Queen" stiffed in the stall.
形容词 adj.
  1. Rigid; hard to bend; inflexible.
    — “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;[…]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
  2. Inflexible; rigid. figuratively
  3. Formal in behavior; unrelaxed.
  4. Harsh, severe. colloquial
    — He was eventually caught, and given a stiff fine.
  5. Painful or more rigid than usual as a result of excessive or unaccustomed exercise.
    — My legs are stiff after climbing that hill yesterday.
  6. Potent.
    — a stiff drink; a stiff dose; a stiff breeze
  7. Expensive, pricey. informal
    — He had the practised face of a dealer also. But he was a Jew and chaffering was in his blood, and he said, "A bit stiff, isn't it? I mean without a guarantee that it's by the original maker?"
  8. Dead, deceased. informal
  9. Erect. slang
    — Adieu! faint-hearted instrument of lust; / That falselie hath betrayde our equale trust. / Hence-forth no more will I implore thine ayde, / Or thee, or man of cowardize upbrayde. / My little dilldo shall suply their kinde: / A knaue, that moues as light as leaues by winde; / That bendeth not, nor fouldeth anie deale, / But stands as stiff as he were made of steele; / And playes at peacock twixt my leggs right blythe, / And doeth my tickling swage with manie a sighe. / For, by saint Runnion! he'le refresh me well; / And neuer make my tender bellie swell.
  10. Having a dense consistency; thick; (by extension) Difficult to stir.
    — Adding too much peanut butter to your Peanut Sauce recipe may cause your sauce to turn out too stiff.
  11. Beaten until so aerated that they stand up straight on their own.
    — beat the egg whites until they are stiff
  12. Of an equation, for which certain numerical solving methods are numerically unstable, unless the step size is taken to be extremely small.
  13. Keeping upright.
  14. Of a shot, landing so close to the flagstick that it should be very easy to sink the ball with the next shot.
    — I go all out, go for the long ball, the stiff shots to the pin, aim for the back of the cup.
  15. Delivered more forcefully than needed, whether intentionally or accidentally, thus causing legitimate pain to the opponent.
副词 adv.
  1. Of the wind, with great force; strongly.
    — At Feversham was a very High Tide in the Afternoon, tho' the Wind was Southerly, and blew very stiff, which the Seamen there wondered at.
  2. Very thoroughly. dated,slang
    — Now I want you to take Vallett in hand and drill him stiff with everything that has to do with Tilehurst and Tapsfield.

词形变化

stiffer comparative stiffest superlative stiffs plural stiffs present,singular,third-person stiffing participle,present stiffed participle,past stiffed past more stiff comparative most stiff superlative

词汇关系

近义词
firm frozen hard hardened immalleable inflexible ossified petrified rigid solid stark stubborn stiff taut tight unbending unlimber unyielding
反义词
flexible loose malleable slack soft
下位词
flaccid starch starched
衍生词
bindle stiff bored stiff diabetic stiff hand syndrome frozen stiff nonstiff overstiff scared stiff stiff-arm stiff as a board stiff as a poker stiff-backed stiff cheddar stiffen stiff-hearted stiffish stiff-leaf goldenrod stiffleg stifflike stiff-lipped stiff man syndrome stiff neck stiffnecked stiff-necked stiffness stiff peak stiff peaks stiff-person syndrome stiff person syndrome stiff porridge stiffship stiff shit stiff sickness stiff skin syndrome Stiff Street stifftail stiff-tailed duck stiff 'un stiff upper lip stiffware stiffy unstiff do a bit of stiff lucky stiff mission stiff working stiff stiff up
相关词
bindlestiff

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *steyp
Proto-Germanic *stīfaz
Proto-West Germanic *stīf
Old English stīf
Middle English stif
English stiff
From Middle English stiff, stiffe, stif, from Old English stīf, from Proto-West Germanic *stīf, from Proto-Germanic *stīfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steypós.
See also West Frisian stiif, Dutch stijf, Norwegian Bokmål stiv, German steif; also Latin stīpes, stīpō, from which English stevedore.
The expected Modern English form would be /staɪf/; /stɪf/ is probably originally from compounds such as stiffly, where the vowel was shortened before a consonant cluster.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *steyp
Proto-Germanic *stīfaz
Proto-West Germanic *stīf
Old English stīf
Middle English stif
English stiff
From Middle English stiff, stiffe, stif, from Old English stīf, from Proto-West Germanic *stīf, from Proto-Germanic *stīfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steypós.
See also West Frisian stiif, Dutch stijf, Norwegian Bokmål stiv, German steif; also Latin stīpes, stīpō, from which English stevedore.
The expected Modern English form would be /staɪf/; /stɪf/ is probably originally from compounds such as stiffly, where the vowel was shortened before a consonant cluster.
词源 3
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *steyp
Proto-Germanic *stīfaz
Proto-West Germanic *stīf
Old English stīf
Middle English stif
English stiff
From Middle English stiff, stiffe, stif, from Old English stīf, from Proto-West Germanic *stīf, from Proto-Germanic *stīfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steypós.
See also West Frisian stiif, Dutch stijf, Norwegian Bokmål stiv, German steif; also Latin stīpes, stīpō, from which English stevedore.
The expected Modern English form would be /staɪf/; /stɪf/ is probably originally from compounds such as stiffly, where the vowel was shortened before a consonant cluster.
词源 4
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *steyp
Proto-Germanic *stīfaz
Proto-West Germanic *stīf
Old English stīf
Middle English stif
English stiff
From Middle English stiff, stiffe, stif, from Old English stīf, from Proto-West Germanic *stīf, from Proto-Germanic *stīfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steypós.
See also West Frisian stiif, Dutch stijf, Norwegian Bokmål stiv, German steif; also Latin stīpes, stīpō, from which English stevedore.
The expected Modern English form would be /staɪf/; /stɪf/ is probably originally from compounds such as stiffly, where the vowel was shortened before a consonant cluster.
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