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Found 2 items, similar to squeamish.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: squeamish
squeamish
adj : excessively fastidious and easily disgusted;
“too nice about
his food to take to camp cooking”;
“so squeamish he
would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow”
[syn:
dainty,
nice,
overnice,
prissy]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Squeamish
Squeamish
\Squeam"ish\ (skw[=e]m"[i^]sh), a. [OE. squaimous,
sweymous, probably from OE. sweem, swem, dizziness, a
swimming in the head; cf. Icel. sveimr a bustle, a stir,
Norw. sveim a hovering about, a sickness that comes upon one,
Icel. svimi a giddiness, AS. sw[=i]ma. The word has been
perhaps confused with qualmish. Cf.
Swim to be dizzy.]
Having a stomach that is easily turned or nauseated; hence,
nice to excess in taste; fastidious; easily disgusted; apt to
be offended at trifling improprieties.
[1913 Webster]
Quoth he, that honor's very squeamish
That takes a basting for a blemish. --Hudibras.
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His muse is rustic, and perhaps too plain
The men of squeamish taste to entertain. --Southern.
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So ye grow squeamish, Gods, and sniff at heaven. --M.
Arnold.
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Syn: Fastidious; dainty; overnice; scrupulous. See
Fastidious.
[1913 Webster] --
Squeam"ish*ly, adv. --
Squeam"ish*ness, n.
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