• feline cough, ferine cough
• doggedly, intractably, obstinately, stoutly, stubbornly, sullenly, wilfully, willfully
• fractiousness, obduracy, obstinacy, pertinacity, perverseness, perversity, setness, stubbornness, sullenness, tenacity, toughness
• to put up a stiff resistance, to put up a stout resistance
• to be dead set against sg
• to be wedded to his opinion
• to balk, to bristle up, to cut up rusty, to jib, to set up one's bristles, to turn rusty