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单词 goose-flesh
释义

goose-fleshgoosefleshn.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈgoose-flesh.
1. The flesh of a goose.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > fowls > [noun] > goose
harvest-goosec1400
goose-fleshc1425
goose1539
harvest-home goose1573
c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 661 Caro aucina, goseflesche.
?1527 L. Andrewe tr. Noble Lyfe Bestes sig. ljv The gose flessh is very grose of nature in disiestion.
2. A rough, pimply condition of the skin, resembling that of a plucked goose, produced by cold, fear, etc.; horripilation. (Cf. goose-skin n. 2.)
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the mind > emotion > fear > physical symptoms of fear > [noun] > hair standing on end or gooseflesh
horripilation1656
goose-skin1785
goose-flesha1834
chicken flesh1844
goose pimples1889
goose bumps1933
the world > life > the body > skin > textures or states of skin > [noun] > goose-flesh
crispation1710
goose-skin1785
hen flesh1825
goose-flesha1834
chicken flesh1844
goose pimples1889
a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1839) IV. 342 The very term by which the German New-Birthites express it is enough to give one goose-flesh.
1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. III. viii. 103 This cold day!..Guido must be all goose-flesh in his hole.
1877 L. A. Duhring Pract. Treat. Dis. Skin 29 The condition known as cutis anserina, or goose-flesh.
1880 R. Browning Clive 192 The memory of that moment makes goose-flesh rise!
figurative.1864 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows (1886) 123 Irritating every pore of his vanity, like a dry north-east wind, to a gooseflesh of opposition and hostility.attributive and in other combinations.1851 W. M. Thackeray in Scribner's Mag. 2 134/2 The Exhibition..was..a great love-inspiring, gooseflesh-bringing sight.1860 O. W. Holmes Professor at Breakfast-table xi. 321 You could have grated a nutmeg on my skin, such a ‘goose-flesh’ shiver ran over it.

Derivatives

ˈgoosefleshy adj. (nonce-word) of or relating to ‘gooseflesh’; exhibiting ‘gooseflesh’.
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the mind > emotion > fear > physical symptoms of fear > [adjective] > having gooseflesh
goose-skinned1845
goose-skinny1878
goosefleshy1894
the world > life > the body > skin > textures or states of skin > [adjective] > goose-flesh
goose-skinned1845
goosy1857
goose-skinny1878
goosefleshy1894
the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > causing physical symptoms > [adjective] > causing the hair to stand on end or gooseflesh
gruesome1570
porcupinish1829
horripilant1837
grauly1848
creepy1883
goosefleshy1894
goosefleshing1895
1894 G. S. Layard Tennyson & Pre-Raphaelite Illustr. ii. 16 The true goose-fleshy appearance that would be lost in the warmth of the studio.
1904 Daily Chron. 2 Aug. 7/1 In the life of every married man comes a moment when, with a goose-fleshy shudder, he realises that the face opposite to him at the breakfast-table is the face that will always be there.
1934 A. Christie Murder on Orient Express i. vi. 59 This is where I'm supposed to go all goose-fleshy down the back.
1955 Times 13 July 10/5 Bathing under regularly warm skies spoils anyone, who is not a keen swimmer, for the chilly dips in and out, with the skin blue and goose-fleshy, which the hardy English will take.
1971 O. Norton Corpse-bird Cries iv. 80 There was a lot of stuff about whether her skin was goose-fleshy or not.
ˈgooseflesh v. (nonce-word) (intransitive) to experience ‘gooseflesh’.
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1924 L. Abercrombie Theory of Poetry i. 18 I gooseflesh one day, but another day I do not, at the same passage.
ˈgoose-fleshed adj. (nonce-word) = goosefleshy adj.
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1932 R. Kipling Limits & Renewals 47 A Fear leaped out of the goose-fleshed streets of London between the icy shop~fronts.
ˈgoosefleshing adj. (nonce-word) giving one ‘gooseflesh’.
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the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > causing physical symptoms > [adjective] > causing the hair to stand on end or gooseflesh
gruesome1570
porcupinish1829
horripilant1837
grauly1848
creepy1883
goosefleshy1894
goosefleshing1895
1895 W. C. Russell Convict Ship II. xxvi. 159 ‘It's a goosefleshing discipline’, said Captain Barrett.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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