| 释义 |
thickskin|ˈθɪkskɪn|
One who has a thick skin; a person dull or slow of feeling. Also attrib.
1582Stanyhurst æneis Ded. (Arb.) 9 What thinck you of thee thick skyn, that made this for a fare wel for this mystresse? 1597Bp. Hall Sat. i. i. 8 Nor can I bide to pen some hungry Scene For thick-skin eares, and vndiscerning eyne. 1611Cotgr., Ceruelle à double rebras, a..ioulthead, thicke-skinne, dull fellow. 1893H. M. Doughty Wherry in Wendish L. 53 We..should have made a fair distance but for those slugs and thickskins of bridge-keepers. |