Wordie: Horripilation: Comments

Comment by yarb, 3 months ago

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:17:49 +0000

...a sense of horripilation, his hair prickling along his scalp...

- Malcolm Lowry, October Ferry to Gabriola

Comment by Asativum, 9 months ago

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 05:16:13 +0000

And yet, when you think of the bumps on the cold, plucked skin of a dressed goose, it's maybe a little less sweet.

Goose sure is tasty, though.

Comment by brusselsprouts, 9 months ago

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 02:25:46 +0000

Completely hideous word for goosebumps.

Goosebumps is so much sweeter. Although now I think about it...a bumping goose? Wtf?

tfd:

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:18:46 +0000

The bristling of the body hair, as from fear or cold; goose bumps.

(Late Latin horripilti, horripiltin, to bristle with hairs : horrre, to tremble + pilre, to grow hair (from pilus, hair).)