One who has a thick skin; a person dull or slow of feeling. Also attrib.
1582. Stanyhurst, Æneis, Ded. (Arb.), 9. What thinck you of thee thick skyn, that made this for a fare wel for this mystresse?
1597. Bp. Hall, Sat., I. i. 8. Nor can I bide to pen some hungry Scene For thick-skin eares, and vndiscerning eyne.
1611. Cotgr., Ceruelle à double rebras, a … ioulthead, thicke-skinne, dull fellow.
1893. H. M. Doughty, Wherry in Wendish L., 53. We … should have made a fair distance but for those slugs and thickskins of bridge-keepers.
