What is "stiffish"

Usage examples of "stiffish".

ROLF, mho brings up the rear, is about twenty, with an open face and stiffish butter-coloured hair.

I shot a stiffish dose of brandy into the pig-food before he started on it.

It was a stiffish part, of course, and you could spot the professional style.

Just as you got nearly through Bargo Brush on the old road there was a stiffish hill that the coach passengers mostly walked up, to save the horses -- fenced in, too, with a nearly new three-rail fence, all ironbark, and not the sort of thing that you could ride or drive over handy.

She made me take a whisky -- a stiffish one that she mixed herself -- for a parting glass, and I felt it took a bit of effect upon me.

Her shoes were also blue, almost the colour of her hat, and her hair had been penned into stiffish little waves.

She wore a stiffish fawn-coloured dress that seemed to be cut a little too tight round her substantial hips, for it quite neglected to embrace her knees.

The wind, after chopping about for several days, at one time blowing from the north, and at another from the south, finally settled down into a stiffish gale from the west, which did nothing worse than severely strain the masts.

He led the way into the little sitting room he occasionally referred to as the wardroom, and poured a couple of stiffish brandies.

The brain which had electrified the world of Science by discovering that if you mixed a stiffish oxygen and potassium and added a splash of trinitrotoluol and a spot of old brandy you got something that could be sold in America as champagne at a hundred and fifty dollars the case, had to confess itself baffled.

A painted wooden shovel stood against the fireplace itself, below, carrying a snow scene with a few stiffish figures.

Sunlight danced on the surface, giving her a hint that the current might be stiffish beneath the surface.

It was a stiffish climb through coarse grass and heather and they saw neither man nor beast, except seagulls.

But of the two, the surface craft was the faster in the face of the stiffish head-wind that had sprung up, and the antics of the Blimp were caused by the frantic efforts of its pilot to keep up with the other.

Before long, however, a stiffish breeze sprang up, blowing directly in the direction we wanted, so we improvized a sail with a blanket and the pole, which took us along merrily.