Squeamish

Definition: Squeamish

Squeamish

Adjective

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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "squeamish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Squeamish

Disease

Adjective: diseased; ailing; Verb: ill, ill of; taken ill, seized with; indisposed, unwell, sick, squeamish, poorly, seedy; affected with illness, afflicted with illness; laid up, confined, bedridden, invalided, in hospital, on the sick list; out of health, out of sorts; under the weather; valetudinary.

Fastidiousness

Adjective: fastidious, nice, delicate, delicat, finical, finicky, demanding, meticulous, exacting, strict, anal, difficult, dainty, lickerish, squeamish, thin-skinned; squeasy, queasy; hard to please, difficult to please; querulous, particular, straitlaced, scrupulous; censorious; hypercritical; overcritical.

Unwillingness

Adjective: unwilling; not in the vein, loth, loath, shy of, disinclined, indisposed, averse, reluctant, not content; adverse; (opposed); laggard, backward, remiss, slack, slow to; indifferent; scrupulous; squeamish; (fastidious); repugnant; (dislike); restiff, restive; demurring; Verb: unconsenting; (refusing); involuntary.

Crosswords: Squeamish

Books

• Scotland Is Not for the Squeamish (reference)

• Squeamish About Sushi: And Other Foods Adventures in Japan (reference)

  (more book examples)

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I am not squeamish in such cases when manners are concerned.

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Expression using "squeamish": be squeamish. Additional references.

Albanian

që i vjen për të vjellë shpesh herë, i dobët (anaemic, anemic, bad, cachectic, characterless, cheesy, delicate, Dickey, dicky, dim, Dotty, enervate, faint, fainting, feeble, flabby, flaccid, gone, ill-conditioned, impaired, indolent, inferior, infirm, insubstantial, knock kneed, lame, lamentable, languid, languorous, lax, lean, low, meager, meagre, mean, measly, milk and water, nerveless, pale, pimping, pithless, poky, poor, puny, queasy, reckling, remiss, remote, rotten, rundown, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrofulous, seared, shoddy, skinny, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, soft, spare, tender, thin, third rate, Twiggy, weak, weakly, woozy), i brishtë (brittle, fragile, frail, hothouse, insubstantial, willowy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مفرط الإحتشام (prudish), ‏سريع الغثيان, ‏على وشك الغثيان, ‏شديد الحساسية (exquisite, fastidious, highly strung, oversensitive, touchy, toughy). (various references)

Bulgarian 

гнуслив (queasy), обидчив (hoity toity, huffish, miffy, pettish, prickly, resentful, sensitive, spiky, susceptible, techy, testy, tetchy, thin-skinned, touchy, umbrageous), неразположен (averse, chippy, indisposed, mean, off color, off colour, out of sorts, poorly, queer, seedy, under the weather, unwell), претенциозен (bumptious, choosy, elaborate, fanciful, fastidious, gingerly, high-toned, overblown, pretentious, showy, studied, swanky), придирчив (captious, carping, choosey, dainty, delicate, exacting, exceptive, fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, finikin, nice, particular, pernickety, queasy), изпитващ гадене. (various references)

Chinese 

嬌氣 (finicky; squeamish). (various references)

Czech

slabého žaludku, puritánský (puritan, straitlaced), přecitlivìlý (hypersensitive, mawkish, queasy, ticklish, touchy), fajnový, choulostivý (delicate, lackadaisical, tender, ticklish, tricky, vexed), útlocitný, štítivý. (various references)

Farsi 

نازک نارنجی (Touchy), سخت گیر (Astringent, Difficult, Hard, Intransigent, Priggish, Severe, Stern, Stickler, Strict, Unrelenting), استفراغی , بی میل (Disinclined, Reluctant, Resentful, Unwilling), باحیا (Modest). (various references)

French

qui a mal au c�"ur, qui a la nausée, prudent, facilement dégoûté, délicat. (various references)

German

zimperlich (demure, finicky, mincing, modest, nervous, prissy, prudish, puling, soft), penibel (embarrassing, exact, painful, pernickety, precise, squeamishly). (various references)

Greek 

σιχασιάρησ (queasy), λεπτολόγοσ (caviller, discriminating, finicky, meticulous, particular, pernickety, prim, scrupulous), τάση προσ εμετό. (various references)

Hebrew 

פ�'יע (thinskinned, touchy, vulnerable), ע�"ין � פש, איסט� יסי (delicate, fastidious, sensitive), ר�'יש (excitable, sensitive, susceptible, thinskinned, touchy), � וט�" לבחיל�". (various references)

Hungarian

finnyás (choosey, choosy, dainty, fastidious, pernickety, precious, queasy, sophisticated). (various references)

Italian

schizzinoso (choosey, choosy, fussy), schifiltoso (picky). (various references)

Manx

skeayagh (nauseous), jiooldagh (bilious, dissident, nauseating, nauseous, negative, revolting, sickly). (various references)

Pig Latin

eamishsquay

Portuguese

suscetível (accessible, kid-glove, likely, responsive, sensitive, sensory, sore, susceptible, ticklish, touchy), miudinho (choosey, choosy, niggling, punctilious, scaly), fastiento, enjoado (airsick, bleak, dismal, dreary, ghastly, grisly, horrible, nasty, nauseated, qualmish, queasy, seasick), cheio de melindres. (various references)

Romanian

subţire (choice, cunning, delicate, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, flimsy, hour-glass, jejune, papery, reedy, refined, shrewd, shrill, skinny, slender, slight, slim, sly, small, spidery, stalky, subtle, tall, tenuous, thin, thinly, weak, wiry), prefãcut (affected, assumed, cattish, false, falsified, forged, guileful, histrionic, hollow-hearted, hypocritical, insidious, mock, panting, pecksniffian, pharisaical, pharisee, pretender, seeming, sham, treacherous), peste mãsurã de scrupulos, mofturos (dainty, demure, fastidious, finical, finicking, fractious, Froward, humoursome, naughty, nice, particular, peevish, perverse, picky, qualmish), lingav (picky), ipocrit (cant, canter, canting, dissembler, double-dealer, double-dealing-faced, fairfaced, false, feigner, histrionic, hollow, hypocrite, hypocritical, pecksniffian, pharisaical, pharisee, pietist, Tartuffe), greu de mulţumit (captious, difficult, fastidious, nice, particular, pernickety, qualmish), gingaş (dainty, delicate, delicately, fastidious, fine, fragile, frail, gentle, mellow, nice, pernickety, sightly, sweet, tender), cãruia i se face greaţã. (various references)

Russian 

щепетильный (punctilious, scrupulous, stuffy), болезненный (achy, afflictive, ailing, cachectic, morbid, painful, peccant, pimping, sickly, unhealthy, valetudinarian, valetudinary, weakly), привередливый (choosy, fastidious, finical, pernickety, queasy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

gadljiv (nauseous, queasy). (various references)

Spanish

remilgado (demure, mincing, old-maidish, prim, prissy, prude), quisquilloso (cantankerous, fussy, pernickety, persnickety, pettifogging, petty, spiky, touchy), melindroso (choosey, choosy, dainty, finicky, fussy, modest, nice, prissy, prudish), delicado (daintier, dainty, dead, delicate, exquisite, fastidious, finicky, frail, fussy, hard to please, hard to speak, hypersensitive, kid glove, killed, particular, polite, refined, sharp, subtile, subtle, tenderly, too sensitive, very sensitive), aprensivo (apprehensive, fearful of being ill, nervous, timid, worrier). (various references)

Swedish

pjoskig, överkänslig (be squeamish, hyperaesthetic, hypersensitive, oversensitive, sensitive, supersensitive, thin-skinned). (various references)

Turkish

zor beğenir (picky), titiz (careful, choosy, cleanly, critical, dainty, demanding, difficult, exact, exacting, exigent, fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, fussy, hypercritical, jealous, jealous of, meticulous, niggling, niminy-piminy, particular, peevish, pernickety, picky, rigorous, scrupulous, touchy), midesi hemen bulanan, hassas (brittle, climacteric, critical, delicate, emotional, exquisite, fair, feeling, fine, impressible, impressionable, nice, passibile, precision, queasy, quick, raw, responsive, rose water, sensible, sensitive, slippery, sore, spoony, susceptible, susceptive, tender, thin-skinned, ticklish, tickly, touchy), alıngan (easily offended, edgy, fragile, irritable, pettish, petulant, sensitive, sore, stuffy, susceptible, susceptive, swift to take offence, techy, tender, testy, tetchy, thin skin, ticklish, tickly, touchy, umbrageous). (various references)

Ukrainian

схильний до нудоти, уразливий (biting, defenceless, defenseless, huffy, pregnable, sensitive, techy, tetchy, thin-skinned, vulnerable), вередливий (fastidious, naughty, perverse, queasy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

quá câu nệ, khe khắt quá cẩn thận, hay bu�"n nôn khó tính. (various references)

Welsh

dicra (fastidious, slow). (various references)

delicata, delicatae, delicate, delicati, delicatum, delicatus, fastidiosus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "squeamish": squeamishly, squeamishness, squeamishnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Squeamish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sqeamish, squamish, squeasmish, squeemish, squemish. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: hassium, mashies, masques, messiah, quashes.

-3 letters: amuses, assume, maquis, mashes, mashie, masque, misuse, mushes, samshu, shames, shamus, squash, squish, umiaqs.

-4 letters: amies, amiss, amuse, ashes, haems, hames, issue, maqui, masse, mesas, mises, muses, quais, quash, quasi, quass, seams, seism, semis, shame, shams, sheas, shies, shims, simas, smash, sushi, umiaq.

-5 letters: ahem, aims, amie, amis.

+2 letters: squeamishly.

+3 letters: qualmishness.

+4 letters: squeamishness.

+5 letters: qualmishnesses.