Queasy & Squeamish

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–adjective

1. inclined to or feeling nausea, as the stomach, a person, etc.; nauseous; nauseated. 

2. tending to cause nausea; nauseating. 

3. uneasy or uncomfortable, as feelings, the conscience, etc. 

4. squeamish; excessively fastidious.  



squeamish

–adjective 

1. fastidious or dainty. (精緻的,優雅的)



2. easily shocked 

by 

anything slightly immodest; prudish. 



3. excessively particular or scrupulous as to the moral aspect of things.

4. easily nauseated 

or 

disgusted: to get squeamish at the sight of blood.  



　

Often the characters he plays or the stories he tells as a filmmaker feature protagonists so volatile as to make the viewer squeamish, as exemplified by Viggo Mortensen's scary but magnetic Vietnam vet in "The Indian Runner" (1991), Penn's directorial debut.





—Synonyms 

3. upset, troubled, anxious, worried.





　

Ratliff renders this all with a suitably queasy visual style, using a wide-angle lens to deform the apartment space and further maul Farmiga's drawn features. As she gets crazier, so does her son— resolving to give away all his toys and embalm his pet panda. What with the strange noises emanating from the empty apartment upstairs, it's hard to tell who is the most disturbed member of the family— although it's understandable that Dad freaks out at the fate of the pet dog. 



Around the time Mom starts to hallucinate things coming through the ceiling, Grandma moves back in, announcing that Josh has found Jesus. "Too bad that his mother is a big fat Jew!" Mom screams, introducing a bit of religious conflict that remains tantalizingly underexplored. 



maul

大木槌,楔頭大錘

embalm

以香油(或藥料等) 塗(屍) 防腐





constipation metabolism

Scalp

colic【醫】絞痛;急腹痛

gripe 腸絞痛, complain, grip

dyspepsia 消化不良;胃弱 

queasy 易於反胃的



strident strident [insects] [hinges], a strident tone in his [writings] 

screech the screech of [owls] [brakes], disagreeable, lack of dignity

squeal 

He squealed [on] his mates.

squish

The soaking wet [sneakers] squished as he walked.

the [squish] of footsteps on wet leaves. 

grate

His constant chatter grates [on] my nerves.  

to grate on the [ear].  

to grate a [carrot]. 

to grate one's [teeth]. with people grating tulip bulbs to make soup. 

Raucous



finicky 

persnickety (snobbish) 

fastidious (painstaking) 

cavil (unnecessarily) 

carp

quibble 

prevaricate (mislead)

equivocate (ambiguous to mislead) cf. weasel fudge nudge 

subterfuge 

She regards her [subterfuge] as "a game that amuses me, even though it's dangerous,"

parry

to parry an embarrassing [question].  

as we watch the characters [thrust], [parry], and then [withdraw]

Castigate