squeamish

Meanings

Adjective Satellite

excessively fastidious and easily disgusted
- "so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow"

Adj

Easily shocked, sickened or frightened; tending to be nauseated or nervous; oversensitive.
Averse or reluctant.

Origin / Etymology

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.

Synonyms

dainty, nice, overnice, prissy

Scrabble Score: 23

squeamish is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
squeamish is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
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Words With Friends Score: 24

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