"stiffish" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1849, Mayne Reid, The Flag of Distress:",
          "text": "Even the shabbiest of shore-boats, hired for the shortest time, exacts a stiffish fare.",
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          "ref": "1862, Edwin Waugh, Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine:",
          "text": "Th' main sewer will have to be brought clean across i' this direction, an' it'll be a stiffish job.",
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          "ref": "1913, Captain R. F. Scott, Scott's Last Expedition Volume I:",
          "text": "Ahead of us to-night is a stiffish incline and it looks as though there might be pressure behind it.",
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          "ref": "1954 December, D. S. Barrie and B. D. J. Walsh, “Railways of East Suffolk”, in Railway Magazine, page 816:",
          "text": "Beyond the latter station—reached after traversing the only level mile of track between East Suffolk Junction and Beccles—a stiffish climb leads across heathland to Wickham Market Station, which is actually at Campsea Ashe, 1½ miles from the town of Wickham Market.",
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          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "somewhat stiff",
          "word": "mārōrō"
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  "word": "stiffish"
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