squeamish

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a. 过于拘谨的, 神经质的, 易呕吐的

发音

US /ˈskwiːmɪʃ/

词形变化

more squeamish 比较级 most squeamish 最高级

别名

squeemish sweamish swaimish squeimish squemish squeamous

教材释义与例句

形容词

易呕吐的；易生气的；神经质的；过于拘谨的；洁癖的

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 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. 2.

    Averse or reluctant.

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 4

nice dainty prissy overnice

近义相关 1

fastidious

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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