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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. haughtily stubborn;
- Example: "a stiff-necked old Boston brahmin"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Stiff-necked \Stiff"-necked`\, a. Stubborn; inflexibly obstinate; contumacious; as, stiff-necked pride; a stiff-necked people. --Ex. xxxii. 9. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

stiff-necked adj 1: haughtily stubborn; "a stiff-necked old Boston brahmin"