- 1肉麻兮兮的、太重感情的（常帶點嘲諷，指開口閉口都在講感受、愛抱抱那種）
A slightly mocking word for anything that puts feelings first — talking about emotions, hugging, sharing personal things — when the speaker thinks facts, plans or results should come first. You hear it most about workplace training, management styles, therapy, and modern schooling: "a touchy-feely team-building day", "the new boss is very touchy-feely". The picture inside the word is literal: people touching each other, holding hands, putting a hand on your shoulder — and for many English speakers, especially older ones and especially British ones, that closeness is uncomfortable, so the word carries a small wince. It is almost always negative, though not cruel; it says "this is soft, and a bit " rather than "this is evil". A few people now use it with no sting at all, or even — "I'm quite a touchy-feely person" said about someone who hugs friends easily — and younger speakers, who are more comfortable with emotion talk, use it that way more often. So listen to the tone. It stays informal; you would not write it in a report unless you were being sarcastic about one.
組成Two ordinary verbs joined and used as an adjective: touchy + feely. Note the trick — touchy on its own means 'easily offended', but here it is built fresh from touch, so the pair simply means 'touching and feeling'. The -y ending turns each verb into 'given to doing this'. Formed in American English in the 1960s-70s, out of the encounter-group and human-potential movement of that time.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
touchy-feelyadj
- 1
informalHaving a fondness for physical contact with other people, especially to an excessive degree.
- My last boyfriend was a lovely guy, but I dumped him because he was too touchy-feely with me in public.
- Kühnel’s wife, Berta, began by asking everyone to join hands. […] When I asked her later what she made of the exercise, Hellar told me: “First of all, I’m not a good-feelings, touchy-feely kind of person.”
- 2
derogatoryDriven by intuition or emotion, with a connotation of de-emphasis of rational thought or logic.
- He preferred the clarity of science and left the touchy-feely stuff to others.
- 3
derogatoryAppealing to emotion, sympathy, or romance.
- I think the movie had too much touchy-feely nonsense and not enough action.
touchy-feelynoun
- 1
Physical contact, typically sexual, and usually inappropriate or unwanted.
- Why is it that, when straight men are touched, it is an affront worthy of outrage and police investigation, yet a woman's being the subject of a bar-wide game of touchy-feely is par for the course?
- When I was wrestling, females were just appearing on the scene. I loved my coach's position. "If they want to wrestle with the boys, sure, I will put our wrestlers on the mat for some touchy feely. (Paraphrased, but not by much)
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。