stiffies

While you should never reply to anyone who hasn't bothered to check the spelling of your name, any round-robin emails or cold calls, one should always reply to "stiffies" - particularly those which involve calligraphy, boxes marked "dietary requirements" and charity fund-raising.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

Little Liam is 2 years old and is getting stiffies in the mornings, so everyone's in everyone's business.

Shameless' Emmy Rossum Dishes Out Six Things to Expect in Season 2 2012

So they walk out of a speech and all the freedom warriors will get little stiffies...

Ah, yes, the crippling irony. CC 2009

“The stiffies came in the post this morning,” she shrills.

Now here's to you Mrs Hamilton 2005

“The stiffies came in the post this morning,” she shrills.

Archive 2005-12-01 2005

From having nothing but the task of deflating a lot of stiffies in Rita Blanca, she now was engaged to a scion of the Courtrights.

Telegraph Days Larry Mcmurtry 2006

I'm glad, "she went on, shaking hands cordially;" I sort of thought you would, and yet I didn't know; and there are some awful stiffies among the new girls.

What Katy Did at School Susan Coolidge 1870

"It's horrid to go to school with all those stiffies, that don't care a snap for you, and only laugh."

Real Folks 1865

Do Welshman get stiffies when donning wool trousers?

Army Rumour Service 2010

Man, Wingnuttia discovers social networking and they all get stiffies.

Mock, Paper, Scissors Tengrain 2010