squeamish

squea·mish (skw

sh)

adj.

a. Easily nauseated or sickened.

b. Nauseated.

2. Easily shocked or disgusted.

3. Excessively fastidious or scrupulous.

[Middle English squeimous, alteration of Anglo-Norman escoymous.]

squeamish·ly adv.

squeamish·ness n.

squeamish [ˈskwiːmɪʃ]

adj

1. easily sickened or nauseated, as by the sight of blood

2. easily shocked; fastidious or prudish

3. easily frightened squeamish about spiders

[from Anglo-French escoymous, of unknown origin]

squeamishly adv

squeamishness n

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Adj.

squeamish - 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"

overnice, 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"

squeamish

adjective

1. queasy, sick, nauseous, queer, sickish, qualmish I feel squeamish at the sight of blood.
queasy strong-stomached

2. fastidious, particular, delicate, nice (rare), scrupulous, prudish, prissy (informal), finicky, strait-laced, punctilious A meeting with this man is not for the socially squeamish.
fastidious tough, bold, coarse, earthy, brazen, wanton, brassy, immodest

Translations

squeamish [ˈskwiːmɪʃ] ADJ it's no good being squeamish if you're a surgeon → si eres cirujano no puedes ser aprensivo
I'm squeamish about having needles stuck in me → me da aprensión que me claven agujas
I felt squeamish about touching a live snake → me daba repugnancia tocar una serpiente viva
I'm not squeamish → no soy muy delicado
don't be so squeamish → no seas tan delicado or tiquismiquis

squeamish [ˈskwiːmɪʃ] adj → impressionnable
to be squeamish about sth
I am not squeamish about blood → La vue du sang ne me fait pas peur.

squeamish

adj person (= easily nauseated) → empfindlich, heikel (dial); (= easily shocked) → zartbesaitet, empfindlich; I felt a bit squeamish (= sick) → mir war leicht übel; it gave me a squeamish feeling in my stomach → mein Magen revoltierte; I felt a bit squeamish about telling him the bad news → mir war gar nicht wohl dabei, dass ich ihm die schlechte Nachricht mitteilen musste; I’m not squeamish (= not easily nauseated) → mir wird nicht so schnell schlecht or übel; (= not easily shocked) → ich bin nicht so zartbesaitet or empfindlich; (= not nervous about unpleasant things) → ich bin ja nicht zimperlich; don’t be so squeamish → sei nicht so zimperlich; this book is not for the squeamish → das Buch ist nichts für zarte Gemüter

squeamish [ˈskwiːmɪʃ] adj (easily nauseated) → facilmente impressionabile
I was too squeamish to look → mi faceva troppa impressione guardare

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She was a woman who could not be taught, it is said, though she had a crude natural force which carried with people whose feelings were accessible and whose taste was not squeamish.

My Antonia by Cather, Willa View in context

Philip had a squeamish appetite, and the thick slabs of poor butter on the bread turned his stomach, but he saw other boys scraping it off and followed their example.

Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context

That lady is more mighty than dainty, she is no way squeamish, she devours all and is ready for all, and fills her alforjas with people of all sorts, ages, and ranks.

Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context

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