horripilate
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
horripilate (horripilates, present participle horripilating; past and past participle horripilated)
- (ambitransitive) To bristle#Verb|bristle in fear#Noun|fear or horror; to have goose bumps or goose pimples. [from 1620s]
- 1979, Trevanian [pseudonym; Rodney William Whitaker], Shibumi, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, ISBN 978-0-517-53243-0; republished as Shibumi: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Three Rivers Press, 2005, ISBN 978-1-4000-9803-3, page 330 ↗:
- When Hel shrugged and changed the subject diplomatically, the nape of Diamond's neck horripilated with embarrassment.
- 1979, Trevanian [pseudonym; Rodney William Whitaker], Shibumi, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, ISBN 978-0-517-53243-0; republished as Shibumi: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Three Rivers Press, 2005, ISBN 978-1-4000-9803-3, page 330 ↗:
- have goose flesh or goose skin
- have one's hair stand on end
- perscopate (obsolete)
- German: gruseln
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