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Definition: STIFF NECK |
STIFF NECK1. Obstinacy in evil or wrong; inflexible obstinacy; contumacy. ``I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck.'' --Deut. xxxi. 27. |
Crosswords: STIFF NECK |
| English words defined with "STIFF NECK": meningitis. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | If you have symptoms such as fever or stiff neck, consult your doctor. (references) | |
Fever, headache and stiff neck in meningitis cases, and sepsis and rash in meningococcemia. (references) | ||
High fever, headache, and stiff neck are common symptoms of meningitis in anyone over the age of 2 years. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expression using "STIFF NECK": have a stiff neck. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
stiff neck | 267 |
stiff neck pain | 16 |
stiff neck headache | 10 |
stiff neck treatment | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "STIFF NECK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | nakkestivhed (nuchal rigidity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | nekstijfheid (nuchal rigidity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | torticolis, raideur de la nuque. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Nackensteifigkeit (nuchal rigidity), Nackensteife (nuchal rigidity), Nackenstarre (nuchal rigidity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | στραβολαίμιασμα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nyakfájás (pain in the neck). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | torcicollo (Wryneck), rigidita nucale (nuchal rigidity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | mwannal cam (torticollis, wryneck), cleayn eiyrt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iffstay ecknay torcicolo (crick, kink, torticollis, wryneck). (various references) torticolis, om arogant (man of a domineering spirit). (various references) tortícolis (Crick, torticollis). (various references) tutulmuş boyun, inatçılık (contrariness, cussedness, dourness, hardness, indocility, intractability, intransigence, mulishness, obduracy, obstinacy, perversity, recalcitrance, refractoriness, restiveness, self will, stickiness, stiffness, stubbornness, toughness, waywardness, wilfulness, willfulness), boyun tutulması (Crick, crick in one's neck). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-f-f-i-k-n-s-t" | |
-2 letters: infects, stiffen. | |
-3 letters: feints, finest, incest, infect, infest, insect, knifes, nicest, sicken. | |
-4 letters: cents, cesti, cines, cites, fecks, feint, feist, fices, fiefs, fifes, fines, finks, inset, kiefs, kines, kites, knife, knits, necks, neifs, neist, nicks, nites, scent, senti, since, skein, skiff, skint, skite, sneck, snick, sniff, stein, stick, stiff, stink, teffs, ticks, tiffs. | |
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