touch-me-not noun & adjective. ['tʌtʃmɪnɒt] L16.
[from touch me not, translating Latin NOLI ME TANGERE.]
A. noun.
1. The squirting cucumber, Ecballium elaterium. L16-M18.

2. A balsam or impatiens whose ripe capsules split open with a jerk on being touched; esp. Impatiens noli-tangere. M17.
b. adjective. Esp. of a person: that does not allow or invite touching. L16.
■ J. Scott Who knows why a woman, hitherto touch-me-not, suddenly yields?

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