squeamish
意味
- すぐ物を吐く
- (道徳的に)潔癖すぎる
例文
Tom is squeamish at the sight of blood.
トムは血を見ると吐き気を催します。
Tom was very squeamish and would pass out at the sight of blood.
トムは血を見て吐き気に襲われ、気絶しました。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
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.