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say it: SKWEE-mish
squeamish is an adjective meaning "excessively fastidious and easily disgusted". It is pronounced /ˈskwimɪʃ/ — SKWEE-mish. It carries one recorded sense.
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for squeamish come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.