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squeamish (adj.)
mid-15c., variant of
squoymous
"disdainful, fastidious" (c.1300), from Anglo-French
*escoymous
, which is of unknown origin.
He was somdel squaymous
Of fartyng, and of speche daungerous
[Chaucer, "Miller's Tale," c.1386]
