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overnice

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overnice [ˌəʊvəˈnaɪs]
adj
too fastidious, precise, etc.
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Adj.1.overnice - 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"
squeamish, prissy, dainty, nice
fastidious - giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness; "a fastidious and incisive intellect"; "fastidious about personal cleanliness"
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overnice [ˌəʊvəˈnaɪs] ADJ → melindroso, remilgado
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His thin, little body had grown steadily thinner since he had come among the apes, for while, as a young cannibal, he was not overnice in the matter of diet, he found it not always to his taste to stomach the weird things which tickled the palates of epicures among the apes.
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