STIFF, STIFFEN, STIFFNESS
ADJECTIVES
1412 — UNBUXOM unready to bend, stiff → obs.
1440 — RIGENT stiff, rigid → obs.
1477 — ROID stiff → obs.
1746 — AFRORE frozen, stiff with frost → Eng. dial.
1779 — POKERISH inclined to be stiff and unyielding in manner
1788 — HASK rough to the touch; stiff, unyielding; brittle and difficult to work → Sc. & Eng. dial.
..19C — CHURLY hard, dry, stiff → Eng. dial.
..19C — DEATH-STARK as stiff as death → Eng. dial.
..19C — RAXY stiff → Sc.
1808 — HABBIE → HABBY stiff in motion → Sc.
1818 — UNBOWSOME unbending, unyielding, stiff, rigid → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1825 — CRAMPLE-HAMMED stiffened in the lower joints → Eng. dial.
1825 — SCRAM benumbed; withered; stiff, cramped → Eng. dial.
1843 — STICKY of a person: wanting in animation or grace; stiff, wooden → colloq. obs.
1848 — RIGESCENT tending to be or becoming rigid or stiff
1851 — CRISP stiff, firm, as opposed to limp
1886 — RAMRODDY stiff, unbending
1898 — ALL IN A PIECE stiff with cold or rheumatism → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 — ALL OF A PIECE stiff, crippled by rheumatism → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 — CARLISH stiff, hard, difficult to bend → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 — STIFF AS BARKER’S KNEE very stiff → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 — DEAD-STARK as stiff as a corpse → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1901 — KEDGE stiff, tight → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1902 — LEEDER-GROWN stiff in the joints or sinews for want of exercise → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — NASH firm, stiff, hard → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — THARF stark, stiff; heavy → Sc. & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1913 — STOVE UP stiff from overwork → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1928 — LEMSE stiff or halting in one’s movements, slow, sluggish, sloppy → Sc.
1939 — AGUEFIED pained, stiff, store, as with ague → Amer. dial.
1952 — CRISS stiff, not pliable → chiefly Jamaican
ADVERBS
1867 — POKERISHLY in a stiff and unyielding manner → obs.
NOUNS
1250 — UNBUXOMHEAD stiffness of body → obs.
1644 — CRICKLING a muscular ache or pain; a feeling of stiffness in the muscles → obs.
1680 — CRICKLE a muscular ache or pain; a feeling of stiffness in the muscles → obs.
1766 — RIGESCENCE a becoming stiff; stiffening
1880 — RAMRODISM military stiffness
NOUNS, PERSON
1913 — CROBATE a poor stiff person or horse → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
VERBS
1374 — CRAMPISH to cramp; to stiffen painfully, to paralyze → obs.
1807 — POKER to stiffen up → obs.
1898 — SCRAGGLE to walk with difficulty; to bend the legs stiffly; to become stiff; to crawl about feebly, as a sick man → Eng. dial.
1959 — COOPER UP to become stiff, unable to move, or exhausted → Amer. dial.
1973 — TENSE UP to become stiff, ineffective, and semi-paralyzed from nervous tension → Amer. sl.