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stiffnecked

adj

Etymology

From stiff + neck + -ed.

  1. derived from *knog-✻
  2. inherited from *hnakkô✻ — “nape, neck”
  3. inherited from hnecca
  4. inherited from nekke
  5. formed as stiffnecked — “stiff + neck + -ed”

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of stiff-necked.

The neighborhood

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