Difference between Stiff and Corpse

What is the difference between Stiff and Corpse?

Stiff as a noun is an average person, usually male, of no particular distinction, skill, or education, often a working stiff or lucky stiff. while Corpse as a noun is a dead body

Stiff

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of an object, rigid, hard to bend, inflexible. Of policies and rules and their application and enforcement, inflexible. Of a person, formal in behavior, unrelaxed. Harsh, severe. Of muscles, or parts of the body, painful, as a result of excessive, or unaccustomed exercise. potent. dead, deceased Of a penis, erect

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An average person, usually male, of no particular distinction, skill, or education, often a working stiff or lucky stiff. A person who is deceived, as a mark or pigeon in a swindle. A cadaver, a dead person. A person who leaves (especially a restaurant) without paying the bill.

Part of speech: verb

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

Example sentence: I think people are very stiff. Money makes people stiff, and we want it, and we have to pay the penalty. I never agreed with stiffness. I think people have an understanding of what their life is. I define success by being a realist and not humiliating people. I'm a revolutionary - but not in the political sense.

Corpse

Part of speech: verb

Definition: (of an actor) to lose control during a performance and laugh uncontrollably

Part of speech: noun

Definition: a dead body

Example sentence: My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.

We hope you now know whether to use Stiff or Corpse in your sentence.

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