Squeamish

a.

1.

Having a stomach that is easily turned 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.

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" Synonyms: overnice, prissy, dainty, nice

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