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单词 squeamish
释义 squeamish
 —squeamishly,  adv.   —squeamishness,  n.  
 /skwee"mish/,  adj.  
  1. fastidious or dainty.
  2. easily shocked by anything slightly immodest; prudish.
  3. excessively particular or scrupulous as to the moral aspect of things.
  4. easily nauseated or disgusted: to get squeamish at the sight of blood.
 [1400-50; late ME squemish, alter. (conformed to -ISH1) of squemes, squaymes, alter. of squaymous < AF escoymous; ulterior orig. uncert.]
 Syn. 1. modest. 3. finical, finicky, delicate, exacting.
 Ant. 1-3. bold.
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