SQUEAMISH


Meaning of SQUEAMISH in English

adj.1 easily nauseated or disgusted.

2 fastidious or overscrupulous in questions of propriety, honesty, etc.

Derivatives:

squeamishly adv. squeamishness n.

Etymology: ME var. of squeamous (now dial.), f. AF escoymos, of unkn. orig.

Oxford English vocab.      Оксфордский английский словарь.