Definitions for stiff-necked

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Spelling: [stif-nekt]
IPA: /ˈstɪfˈnɛkt/

Stiff-Necked is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 522 anagrams from letters in stiff-necked (-cdeeffiknst).

Definitions for stiff-necked

adjective

  1. having a stiff neck; having torticollis.
  2. haughty and obstinate; refractory.

Origin of stiff-necked

First recorded in 1520-30

Examples for stiff-necked

They treated them stiff-necked food-slingers like they was a lot of wooden Indians.

They are stiff-necked, obstinate, ill-conditioned people—that is, the men.

Words may come, but they are words, hard and stiff-necked and pedestrian.

Judge Granger—that inflated, stiff-necked, egotistical bag of conceit!

Abe was stiff-necked as hell, whether it was cards or cattle, you know that.

This was a new aspect of the stiff-necked young teamster they had known.

It only developed later what a stiff-necked people the Bulgars could be.

The old Alroy blood flows in his veins, a stiff-necked race.

You flattered yourself you were going to get riches, but your daughters were too stiff-necked.

Our stiff-necked Alexandrians in the dust before the victor!

Word Value for stiff-necked
Scrable

11

Words with friends

11

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