Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Adjective Phrase 95. The adjective phrase today is
touchy-feely and we got three meanings and three uses. Okay. If somebody wants a screenshot,
do it right now. Let's get right to it. If someone says that something is touchy-feely,
it means someone is expressing their emotions of love or affection in a way, in a very open way.
Which one may find embarrassing or silly. Yeah. If one likes it, if one thinks it's romantic,
they won't call it touchy-feely. It's only when you think it kind of goes overboard.
It's over sentimental. It's almost kind of embarrassing or almost a little ridiculous.
It's going that far. Then you might say that. It's a little too touchy-feely.
Okay. All right. The second one here is focus too much on emotion rather than rational
thought. Yeah. So we also say touchy-feely when we think rational thought or a rational or deeper
story or message is is what's wanted rather than touchy-feely. All right. And the third one here.
The third one is more literal. Having a liking for physical contact with others, especially to
an excessive extent. So somebody that kind of puts their hands on you or touches you
a little bit more than you feel it maybe even appropriate or a little too much or
where it doesn't seem like it was called for it. You might think that that person is a little too
touchy-feely. Okay. All right. Let's continue. Now we don't have an exact origin of it,
but we do know the term seems to have become popular in the US during the 1970's. That's
around when it started to pick up its use. All right. And we got six examples to kind of cover
these three definitions and uses. Here's the first one. I'm not really into chick flicks.
Sometimes I've talked about this before. These are movies that are targeted directly towards women.
They are too touchy-feely for me. So especially if there's a guy that says that. That this
this movie is you know, just the movie that's targeted towards women. You know, it's a lot
of emotion and a lot of crying. So he might describe it as being too touchy-feely for him.
He doesn't really like that. He thinks it goes too far. It's you know, kind of silly or possibly even
you know, he prefers something more deeper or something like that. All right number two. She
likes to read a lot of touchy-feely poetry. Yeah. It's another way that we might use it.
Your speech is a little too touchy-feely. Focus on the facts. Well whatever it is maybe somebody was
getting a little too emotional with their speech, but you know maybe the message was supposed to be
more important. They wanted it to be more direct, more rational. Number four. That singer only
writes those touchy- feely la-la songs. Yeah. We often say la la songs because a lot of those
romantic love songs used to have a lot of la la la -la you know, especially I think the Carpenters
you know, and they go la la la. You know basically in their songs. I prefer songs that have a deeper
message. So that's what somebody might say. So they think their love songs are a little too
touchy-feely. Okay. And number five here. That politician had a reputation for being a little
too touchy-feely. Well this is the one where we say maybe he's maybe touching some of the people
a little inappropriately. A little too much. More than you think a politician should go.
All right. Or number six here. I am glad we have a new supervisor. The last one was a little too
touchy-feely. It was practically borderline sexual harassment. So probably not definite
ones. Otherwise he probably would have been you know fired for that or arrested
for that. But maybe again he kind of touched a lot and not always what it was called for.
But even though it was probably touching arms or shoulders or something like that it was
maybe for some of the people or especially maybe some of the women if it was a guy
they they were thinking he was going a little bit a little overboard. A little too much. You
don't want to say "hey that's sexual harassment. " But it may not really be that. But kind of touching
a little too much. Kind of like that. Then we say touchy-feely. All right. Anyway, I hope you
got it. I hope it's clear . I hope it was very informative. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.