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   stiff-necked

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   • 1. haughty and stubborn: "stiff-necked pride"

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   What does stiff-necked mean?

   • Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free! Can you solve 4 words at once? The meaning of STIFF-NECKED is haughty, stubborn. How to use stiff-necked in a sentence.

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   What does a stiff neck mean?

   • having a stiff neck; having torticollis. haughty and obstinate; refractory. Stiff necked and determined to make a name for himself at an early age, he took our quiet country life by storm. Bland was stiff-necked, vain, the sort to be brutal in retaliation for any fancied invasion of his rights.

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   When was stiff-necked first used?

   • The earliest known use of the adjective stiff-necked is in the early 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for stiff-necked is from 1526, in the New Testament. stiff-necked is formed within English, by derivation; partly modelled on a Greek lexical item, and partly modelled on a Hebrew lexical item.

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   What does it mean if a heifer is stiff necked?

   • Stiff necked; a metaphor taken from heifers that are unaccustomed to the yoke. Uncircumcised in heart; such as had still depraved affections, which they ought to have put away rather than the foreskin of their flesh; for they were commanded to circumcise their hearts, Deu 10:16, which also God promised to do for his people, Deu 30:6.

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   Stiff-necked means proud and unwilling to do what other people want. It can also mean having a stiff neck or torticollis. See examples, pronunciation, and word frequency of stiff-necked.

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     Haughtily stubborn or obstinate.... Click for...

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   Stiff-necked means haughty, stubborn or formal, stilted. Learn the synonyms, examples, word history and related articles of this adjective from Merriam-Webster dictionary.

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   stiff-necked: 1 adj haughtily stubborn “a stiff-necked old Boston brahmin” Synonyms: obstinate , stubborn , unregenerate tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield

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   Stiff-necked definition: having a stiff neck; having torticollis.. See examples of STIFF-NECKED used in a sentence.

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   The earliest known use of the adjective stiff-necked is in the early 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for stiff-necked is from 1526, in the New Testament . stiff-necked is formed within English, by derivation; partly modelled on a Greek lexical item, and partly modelled on a Hebrew lexical item.

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   Stiff-necked means stubborn and arrogant or aloof. Find the origin, usage, and translations of this adjective in various dictionaries and thesaurus.