squeamish

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Easily shocked, sickened or frightened; tending to be nauseated or nervous; oversensitive.
    — He might have made a good doctor, had he not been so squeamish at the sight of blood.
  2. Averse or reluctant.

词形变化

more squeamish comparative most squeamish superlative sweamish alternative,dialectal swaimish alternative,dialectal squeimish alternative,obsolete squemish alternative,obsolete squeamous alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
oversqueamish squeamishly squeamishness unsqueamish

词源

Origin obscure. Likely a merger of earlier squeamous (“squeamish”), from Middle English squaimous, queimous, from Anglo-Norman escoimus, escoymous, of unknown origin; and dialectal English sweamish, sweemish (“faint, squeamish”), from sweam (“dizziness, sudden qualm of sickness”) and dialectal sweem (“to swoon, be faint, be overcome, feel sick”), from Middle English swemen (“to grieve, make suffer, be faint of heart”), from Old English *swǣman (“to grieve, trouble, afflict”). If so, then related to swim (“to be dizzy, swoon”). See also sweam.
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