Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
squeamish .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Squeamish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
squeamish
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Examples
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And they dread to be seen of other men, and bark as hounds, and they dread water most of all things, and are afeared thereof full sore and squeamous also.
Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages James Joseph Walsh 1903
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And they dread to be seen of other men, and bark as hounds, and they dread water most of all things, and are afeared thereof full sore, and squeamous also.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902
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