01 a. Having a stomach that is easily turned or nauseated; hence, nice to excess in taste; fastidious; easily disgusted; apt to be offended at tr…
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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.
Syn.
Fastidious; dainty; overnice; scrupulous. See Fastidious.