eristic vs stiff

eristic

adj
  • Provoking strife, controversy or discord. 

noun
  • One who makes specious arguments; one who is disputatious. 

  • A type of dialogue or argument where the participants do not have any reasonable goal. The aim is to argue for the sake of conflict, and often to see who can yell the loudest. 

stiff

adj
  • Harsh, severe. 

  • Of a shot: landing so close to the flagstick that it should be very easy to sink the ball with the next shot. 

  • Delivered more forcefully than needed, whether intentionally or accidentally, thus causing legitimate pain to the opponent. 

  • Dead, deceased. 

  • Erect. 

  • Inflexible; rigid. 

  • Beaten until so aerated that they stand up straight on their own. 

  • Formal in behavior; unrelaxed. 

  • Rigid; hard to bend; inflexible. 

  • Potent. 

  • Painful as a result of excessive or unaccustomed exercise. 

  • Having a dense consistency; thick; (by extension) Difficult to stir. 

  • Of an equation: for which certain numerical solving methods are numerically unstable, unless the step size is taken to be extremely small. 

  • Keeping upright. 

noun
  • Any hard hand where it is possible to exceed 21 by drawing an additional card. 

  • A person who leaves (especially a restaurant) without paying the bill. 

  • A customer who does not leave a tip. 

  • A person who is deceived, as a mark or pigeon in a swindle. 

  • A cadaver; a dead person. 

  • Negotiable instruments, possibly forged. 

  • A note or letter surreptitiously sent by an inmate. 

  • A flop; a commercial failure. 

  • An average person, usually male, of no particular distinction, skill, or education. 

adv
  • Of the wind, with great force; strongly. 

verb
  • To tip ungenerously. 

  • To kill. 

  • To cheat someone 

  • To fail to pay that which one owes (implicitly or explicitly) to another, especially by departing hastily. 

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