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Fwd: horripilation: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

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Nov. 13, 2014

horripilation

\haw-rip-uh-LEY-shuhn, ho-\

noun
1. a bristling of the hair on the skin from cold, fear, etc.; goose flesh.

Quotes

He wondered if that was because they all were ready to leave, but as he surveyed the crowd, he began to feel something prickly and wonderful happening to his skin. Horripilation.
-- Glen David Gold, Carter Beats the Devil, 2001

Origin

Horripilation shares a root with the word horror in the Latin verb horrēre meaning "to bristle." It entered English in the mid-1600s.

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