Word of the Day - tactile

tactile

/ˈtaktʌɪl/ [tack-tile]
adjective
1 Of or connected with the sense of touch.
1.1 Perceptible by touch or apparently so; tangible.
1.2 Designed to be perceived by touch.
1.3 (of a person) given to touching other people, especially as an unselfconscious expression of sympathy or affection.

Origin
Early 17th century (in the sense ‘perceptible by touch, tangible’): from Latin tactilis, from tangere ‘to touch’.

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Tacky tactile trickiness
Trying to avoid the stickiness
Of the creaky old parole,
"something about a ten foot pole."

(Of course, now I have failed to avoid it!)