"thin-skinned" meaning in English

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Adjective

Audio: En-us-thin-skinned.ogg [US], En-au-thin-skinned.ogg [Australia] Forms: more thin-skinned [comparative], most thin-skinned [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} thin-skinned (comparative more thin-skinned, superlative most thin-skinned)
  1. (idiomatic) Overly sensitive to criticism; quick to take offence; irritable; touchy. Tags: idiomatic Translations (having a thin skin): тънкокож (tǎnkokož) (Bulgarian), ohutkuorinen (english: fruit) [usually] (Finnish), ohutihoinen [person] (Finnish), ohutnahkainen (english: animal) (Finnish), à la peau fine (French), dünnhäutig (German), ince kabuklu (Turkish), ince derili (Turkish) Translations (overly sensitive to criticism): чувствителен (čuvstvitelen) (Bulgarian), обидчив (obidčiv) (Bulgarian), herkkänahkainen (Finnish), herkkätunteinen (Finnish), herkkä (Finnish), susceptible (French), dünnhäutig (German), permaloso (Italian), wrażliwy (Polish), picajón [masculine] (Spanish), picajoso [masculine] (Spanish), alıngan (Turkish), darılgan (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-thin-skinned-en-adj-Q9o5BWhY Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 98 2 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 97 3 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 94 6 Disambiguation of 'having a thin skin': 80 20 Disambiguation of 'overly sensitive to criticism': 99 1
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see thin, skinned.
    Sense id: en-thin-skinned-en-adj-LwA0tXDR
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: thin-skinnedness

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