squeamish

squeamish
    adj 1: 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" [syn:
           {dainty}, {nice}, {overnice}, {prissy}, {squeamish}]
    

Squeamish \Squeam"ish\ (skw[=e]m"[i^]sh), a. [OE. squaimous,
   sweymous, probably from OE. sweem, swem, dizziness, a
   swimming in the head; cf. Icel. sveimr a bustle, a stir,
   Norw. sveim a hovering about, a sickness that comes upon one,
   Icel. svimi a giddiness, AS. sw[imac]ma. The word has been
   perhaps confused with qualmish. Cf. {Swim} to be dizzy.]
   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.
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         Quoth he, that honor's very squeamish
         That takes a basting for a blemish.      --Hudibras.
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         His muse is rustic, and perhaps too plain
         The men of squeamish taste to entertain. --Southern.
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         So ye grow squeamish, Gods, and sniff at heaven. --M.
                                                  Arnold.
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   Syn: Fastidious; dainty; overnice; scrupulous. See
        {Fastidious}.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Squeam"ish*ly}, adv. --
        {Squeam"ish*ness}, n.
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53 Moby Thesaurus words for "squeamish":
      airsick, barfy, bashful, boggling, carsick, critical, dainty,
      delicate, demanding, demurring, difficult, diffident, dizzy,
      exacting, faltering, fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky,
      finikin, fuddy-duddy, fuss-budgety, fussy, hard to please,
      hesitant, hesitating, meticulous, modest, nauseated, nauseous,
      nice, painstaking, particular, pawky, pernickety, persnickety,
      prudish, pukish, puky, punctilious, qualmish, qualmy, queasy,
      queer, scrupulous, seasick, shaky, shrinking, shy, stickling,
      unsettled, upset, vertiginous