Thinskinned,

on the contrary, means impatient of reproof or censure; their skin is so thin it annoys them to be touched.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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