touch-me-not-ishness

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The quality of being touch-me-not-ish. uncountable
    — The young ladies were pretty, their manners winning, their dispositions unexceptionable; but there was a dignity in the air, a touch-me-not-ish-ness in the walk, a majesty in the eye of the spinster aunt, to which, at their time of life they could lay no claim, which distinguished her from any female on whom Mr. Tupman had ever gazed.

词源

From touch-me-not-ish + -ness.
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