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Gooseflesh   Listen
noun
gooseflesh  n.  A peculiar roughness of the skin produced by cold or fear, in which the hair follicles become erect and form bumps on the skin; called also goose skin, goose pimples, goose bumps.
Synonyms: goose bumps, goose pimples, goose skin.





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"Gooseflesh" Quotes from Famous Books



... oath!!! Don't you know what an oath is, Kaeferstein? "Guardeth an oath!!—the Furies' child." This oath is said to be the child of the Furies, Dr. Kegel! You've got to use your voice! The audience, to the last usher, has got to be one vast quivering gooseflesh when you say that! One shiver must run through every bone in the house! Listen to me: "For this house's ... threshold Guardeth an oath!!! The Furies' child, The fearfullest of the infernal deities!"—Go ahead! Don't repeat these verses. But you can stop long enough to ...
— The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann - Volume II • Gerhart Hauptmann


Words linked to "Gooseflesh" :   goosebump, goose bump, horripilation, unconditioned reflex, physiological reaction, reflex, reflex action


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