thickskin

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See also: thick skin

English

Etymology

From thick +‎ skin.

Noun

thickskin (plural thickskins)

  1. A coarse, gross person; a person void of sensibility or sensitiveness; a dullard.
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Adjective

thickskin (not comparable)

  1. (zoology) Applied to various creatures having a thick skin.

Derived terms

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “thickskin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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