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thin-skinned, a.
(-skɪnd: stress var.)
1. Having a thin skin or rind.
1598Chapman Blinde Begger of Alexandria Wks. 1873 I. 11 Round faces and thinne skinde are happiest still. 1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) II. 155 Chuse the large, round, white, and thin-skinned ones. 1875Bennett & Dyer Sachs' Bot. 539 A stony endocarp surrounding the thin-skinned seed.
2. fig. Sensitive to criticism, ridicule, or abuse; easily hurt or offended; touchy.
1680Baxter Answ. Stillingfl. lxxviii. 99, I..never was so thin Skin'd as to be unable to bear a Cholerick breath. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 8 June, My apothecary, who is a proud Scotchman, very thin skinned. 1818Cobbett Pol. Reg. XXXIII. 311 The professional gentlemen in Pennsylvania are..extremely thin-skinned, when they are the party attacked. 1894Froude Life & Lett. Erasmus xvii. 328 Erasmus..was thin-skinned as ever.
Hence ˈthin-ˈskinnedness, the condition or quality of being thin-skinned; sensitiveness.
1882Sala Amer. Revis. (1883) I. iii. 43 note, A very gratifying proof of the diminution of what may be termed ‘thin-skinnedness’. 1897Spectator 23 Oct. 552/1 This thin-skinnedness among experienced public men. |