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squeamous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
squea-mous
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

squeamish

Obsolete

Etymology

From Middle English squaimous, queimous, swaymos, sweymows, partly from Anglo-Norman escoimus, escoymous, of unknown origin (possibly from the English); and partly from Middle English sweme, sweyme, swayme, sqweme (“sorrow, grief, unconsciousness, dizzy spell, faintness”) + -ous. See sweam and sweem.

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Usage

Inflected Forms

more squeamous (comparative) most squeamous (superlative) swaimous (alternative, dialectal)

Questions

What does squeamous mean?
squeamish
Where does squeamous come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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