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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