SQUEAMISH

dainty, nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish

(adjective) 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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Adjective

squeamish (comparative more squeamish, superlative most squeamish)

easily bothered or upset; tending to be nauseated or nervous; oversensitive

averse or reluctant

Source: Wiktionary

Squeam"ish, a. Etym: [OE. squaimous, sweymous, probably from OE. sweem, swem, dizziness, a swimming in the head; cf. Icel. svemr a bustle, a stir, Norw. sveim a hovering about, a sickness that comes upon one, Icel. svimi a giddiness, AS. swimi. The word has been perhaps confused witrh qualmish. Cf. Swim to be dizzy.]

Definition: Having a stomach that is easily 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.

– Squeam"ish*ly, adv.

– Squeam"ish*ness, n.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition