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horripilation

(n): reflex erection of hairs of the skin in response to cold or emotional stress or skin irritation
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about 1 month ago yarb said:

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

- Malcolm Lowry, October Ferry to Gabriola

7 months ago Asativum said:

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.

7 months ago brusselsprouts said:

Completely hideous word for goosebumps.

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

11 months ago trivet said: tfd:

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).)

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