Stiff-necked

Definition

stiff /stÇf/ adj ( -er,-est ) ၁။ ေတာင့္ေသာ။ မာေသာ။ မာေခါက္ေခါက္ ျဖစ္ေသာ။ stiff cardboard ❍ a stiff drawer (ie one that sticks) ❍ a stiff pair of shoes ❍ have a stiff neck (ie one that is painful and difficult to move) ❍ feel stiff (ie have stiff muscles and joints) after a long walk. ၂။ ပ်စ္ေသာ။ a stiff dough ❍ Whisk the egg whites until stiff. ၃။ (က) ခက္ခဲေသာ။ a stiff climb/ exam. (ခ) ျပင္းထန္ေသာ။ ႀကီးေလး ေသာ။ face stiff opposition/ competition ❍ The judge imposed a stiff sentence. ၄။ ဟက္ဟက္ပက္ပက္မရိွေသာ။ ဟန္ႀကီးပန္ႀကီး ႏိုင္ေသာ။ They received a rather stiff welcome. ၅။ ( infml ) တနင့္တပိုး။ pay a stiff membership fee. ၆။ တသုန္သုန္၊ တသုတ္သုတ္ တိုက္ေသာ။ a stiff breeze. ၇။ ျပင္းေသာ။ That was a shock — I need a stiff drink! adv ( infml ) အလြန္။ အလြန္အမင္း။ worried/ scared/ frozen stiff ❍ The opera bored me stiff. n ( sl ) လူေသေကာင္။ အေလာင္းေကာင္။ ❏ stiffly adv ေတာင့္ေတာင့္။ မာဆတ္ဆတ္။ stand/ walk stiffly ❍ ‘No, thank you,’ he said stiffly. stiffness n [U] ❏ stiff-necked adj ( fml derog ) ေခါင္းမာေသာ။ ❏ (keep) a stiff upper lip [ IDM ] ဣေႁႏၵမပ်က္ (ေနသည္)။

Examples

1. Her fingers were getting stiff.
2. [feel stiff] : My leg muscles always feel stiff after a long bike ride.
3. [stiff neck/back etc] : She was suffering from a stiff neck.
4. The drawer was rather stiff
5. so I pulled at it.
6. The hinges of the box were stiff with lack of use.
7. A stiff piece of card
8. A small stiff brush
9. [stiff as a board] : The washing on the line was frozen and stiff as a board.
10. [stiff paste/dough] : Beat in the icing sugar to make a stiff paste.
11. [beat/whisk something until stiff] : Whisk the egg whites until stiff.
12. Her tone was a little stiff
13. I thought.
14. [stiff with] : His face was stiff with disapproval.
15. [stiff and awkward] : He looked stiff and awkward in his new suit.
16. [stiff competition] : Jarvis is up against some stiff competition in this race.
17. [stiff opposition/resistance] : The government forces met with stiff resistance in the north.
18. [stiff fine/penalty/sentence] : Those caught breaking the new law face stiff fines.