squeamish

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  1. adjective Easily nauseated or sickened.
  2. adjective Nauseated.
  3. adjective Easily shocked or disgusted.
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  • Not for the squeamish, Taylor's chilling music provokes, angers, and unnerves the listener in ways that are just too powerful for most artists to muster. —  AvaxHome RSS:
  • And this guy's work is not for the squeamish or faint of heart. —  California Literary Review
  • All told, this seems to be a pretty significant update, though we should caution you that it has yet to receive the Sprint stamp of approval, and as such isn't for the squeamish or faint of heart. —  Boy Genius Report
  • Not for the squeamish, although the Choose Life brigade will be delighted. —  Culture | guardian.co.uk
  • So, at the urging of her married cop boyfriend, played by Steve Zahn, she starts an unusual business that's not for the squeamish -- crime-scene cleanup and biohazard removal.
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English squeimous, alteration of Anglo-Norman escoymous.

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  1. Also dial. sweamish, swaimish; early modern English squeimish, squemish; a later form (with suffix -ish substituted for orig. -ous) of squeamous: see squeamous. The sense ‘apt to be nauseated’ may be due in part to association with qualmish.
 

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/ˈskwimɪʃ/
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