stiff-backed
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English[edit]
Adjective[edit]
stiff-backed (comparative more stiff-backed, superlative most stiff-backed)
- obstinate
- 1855, John Henry Newman, Callista:
- Do you fall in with some sour-visaged, stiff-backed worshipper of the Furies?
References[edit]
“stiff-backed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.