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† ˈstaffish, a. Obs.
Also 6–9 Sc. staffage.
[f. staff n.1 + -ish.]
a. Rigid, stiff, hard.
b. fig. Stubborn, unmanageable.
1500–20Dunbar Poems lx. 17 Stuffettis, strekouris, and stafische strummellis. 1513Douglas æneis xii. vi. 134 Thymetes, a man of full gret fors, Castyn from hys staffage, skeich and hedstrang hors. 1545R. Ascham Toxoph. ii. (Arb.) 118 An unfit and staffysh bow. a1568― Scholem. i. (Arb.) 34 A witte in youth, that is not ouer dulle, heauie, knottie and lumpishe, but hard, rough, and though somwhat staffishe. a1568A. Scott Poems xxi. 17, I fand hir of ane staffage kynd, Bath staitly, strange, and he. 1802J. Sibbald Chron. Scot. Poetry IV. Gloss., Staffage, Staffisch, obstinate, obdurate, dry in the mouth, or not easily swallowed, like pease meal bannocks. |
