Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To be squeamish.
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Examples
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I admit to personal squeamishness Is "squeam" a word?
"Does the United States really want to be a country that sends horses to slaughter, here or abroad?" Ann Althouse 2009
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Then I could just admit to a personal squeam and save seven letters. regarding slaughtering/eating horses, but I find the attitude incoherent.
"Does the United States really want to be a country that sends horses to slaughter, here or abroad?" Ann Althouse 2009
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For more squeam check out this dialog between Roth and Brit bio Queen Hermione Lee.
Archive 2008-01-01 Lemon Hound 2008
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For more squeam check out this dialog between Roth and Brit bio Queen Hermione Lee.
Recently read (or reread) Lemon Hound 2008
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You know the tantrums always follow and they'll squeam, and they'll squeam and they'll squeeeeeam!
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Pluvialis has just posted a nothing less than brilliant piece that starts at the Oxford animal labs, roams through various "AR " issue such as the invisibilty of slaughter and the "squeam" factor, and ends with a ringing phone.
Archive 2006-05-01 2006
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Pluvialis has just posted a nothing less than brilliant piece that starts at the Oxford animal labs, roams through various "AR " issue such as the invisibilty of slaughter and the "squeam" factor, and ends with a ringing phone.
"Particular Spaces" 2006
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The pages and pamphlets addressing her afflictions are all full of squeam and delicacy, and therefore lacking in the kind of down-and-dirty, up-the-bum tips that her co-sufferers need to recover.
- Boing Boing 2003
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It was too bad that his publishers, with an eye on a squeam - ish Book-of-the-Month Club, had insisted on removing it.
The Sands of Mars Clarke, Arthur C. 1951
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He says they're of every nationality, but without squeam of any kind -- hang or shoot you as soon as look at you!
The Ivory Trail Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920
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