squeamish

squea·mish  (skwmsh)

adj.

1.

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

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

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

---

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