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English Dictionary: squeamish by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
squeamish
adj
  1. 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"
    Synonym(s): dainty, nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Squeamish \Squeam"ish\, a. [OE. squaimous, sweymous, probably
      from OE. sweem, swem, dizziness, a swimming in the head; cf.
      Icel. svemr a bustle, a stir, Norw. sveim a hovering about, a
      sickness that comes upon one, Icel. svimi a giddiness, AS.
      sw[c6]mi. The word has been perhaps confused witrh qualmish.
      Cf. {Swim} to be dizzy.]
      Having a stomach that is easily 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.
  
      Syn: Fastidious; dainty; overnice; scrupulous. See
               {Fastidious}. -- {Squeam"ish*ly}, adv. --
               {Squeam"ish*ness}, n.
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