Squeamish

Definition of Squeamish

Squeam´ish Pronunciation: skwēm´ĭsh

a.

1.

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.

Quoth he, that honor's very squeamish
That takes a basting for a blemish.

- Hudibras.

His muse is rustic, and perhaps too plain
The men of squeamish taste to entertain.

- Southern.

So ye grow squeamish, Gods, and sniff at heaven.

- M. Arnold.

Related Words

airsick, barfy, bashful, boggling, carsick, critical, dainty, delicate, demanding, demurring, difficult, diffident, dizzy, exacting, faltering, fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, finikin, fuddy-duddy, fuss-budgety, fussy, hard to please, hesitant, hesitating, meticulous, modest, nauseated, nauseous, nice, painstaking, pawky, pernickety, persnickety, prudish, pukish, puky, punctilious, qualmish, qualmy, queasy, queer, scrupulous, seasick, shaky, shrinking, shy, stickling, unsettled, upset, vertiginous

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