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单词 queamish
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queamishadj.

Forms: late Middle English coymous, late Middle English qweymows, 1500s queimish, 1600s queamish.
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: squeamish adj.
Etymology: Variant of squeamish adj.
Obsolete.
= squeamish adj.In quot. 1680 perhaps merely a typographical error for squeamish.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > emotionally detached
queamishc1430
squeamish1561
dry1637
unconcerned1660
inconcerned1688
aloof1872
stocky1876
detached1913
clinical1928
c1430 (c1390) G. Chaucer Miller's Tale (Cambr. Gg.4.27) 3337 Soth to seyn, he was sumdel coymous [v.rr. squaymous; squeymous] Of fartynge, & of speche daungerous.
?a1475 Promptorium Parvulorum (Winch.) (1908) 413 Skeymowse or qweymows, abhominati[u]us.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V iv. viii. 71 Why tis a good shilling man. Why should you be queamish?
1680 R. Head Eng. Rogue (new ed.) ii. xxxv. 305 I have several [women]..who serve for the extraordinary accommodation of my best sort of Guests, and those are such as are so queamish [1668 squeamish] stomached, that will not see one face above two or three times.

Derivatives

queamishly adv.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adverb] > with emotional detachment
dry1513
squeamishly1571
queamishly1594
dryly1622
unconcernedly1636
aloofly1891
1594 G. Chapman Σκìα Νυκτòς Ded. sig. Aij They queimishlie commende it for a pretie toy.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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