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squeamish(dictionary)

squeamish (iou)



squeamish adjective. LME.
[Alt. of SQUEAMOUS by substitution of -ISH1 for -OUS.]
a. (Of a person) easily turned sick or faint; (of the stomach) readily affected with nausea. LME.
R. Rendell He was squeamish, he..couldn't face the idea of seeing a dead body.
b. Slightly affected with nausea; queasy. M17.
P. Kavanagh The pigs were..killed right beside our front door. Nobody felt sick or squeamish.
Unwilling or backward to do something. M-L16.
Reserved, cold, coy; bashful, diffident. obsolete exc. dial. M16.
b. Averse to being free or generous with something. Foll. by of. M16-E17.
Easily shocked or offended by immodesty or indecency; prudish. Now rare. M16.
b. Sensitive; shrinking from contact with anything harsh or rough. Only in 18.
Excessively fastidious or scrupulous in questions of propriety, honesty, etc. L16.
absol.: F. Forsyth He had worked in Stalin's Public Prosecutor office, not a job for the squeamish.
b. Fastidious or particular with respect to what one uses or comes in contact with. E17.
squeamishly adverb L16.
squeamishness noun L16.
squeamy adjective (orig. & chiefly US) = SQUEAMISH M19.