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ˈgoose-skin
1. The skin of a goose.
1700Floyer Cold Baths i. ii. 38 Excessive Cold, which contracts the Skin like a Goose-Skin.
2. = goose-flesh 2.
[1638Rawley tr. Bacon's Life & Death 150 A Rugged Skin, such as they call a Goose Skin (orig. de cute spissiori, quam vocant anserinam), which is, as it were, Spongie.] 1785J. Trusler Mod. Times III. 157 He draws back when they are addressing him, as if contamination was in their breath, and is all gooseskin at a low bred man. 1824S. E. Ferrier Inher. ii, Her skin began to rise into what is vulgarly termed goose-skin. 1836Lady Dacre in L'Estrange Friendships Miss Mitford (1882) I. 319 The learning she displays..gives me, what the poor people call the ‘goose-skin’—a sort of vague sensation of awe. 1872Huxley Phys. xii. 279 ‘Horripilation’ or ‘goose-skin’. 1896Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 341 The skin is pale, and owing to the contraction of the unstriped muscle fibres, presents the appearance called ‘goose-skin’.
3. A thin soft kind of leather. Also attrib.
1826Morn. Herald in Hone Every-day Bk. (1859) II. 461 The ladies all wore a goose-skin underdress, in compliment to the north-easter. 1889in Century Dict.
4. The impression made upon copal by the sand or gravel in which it is found.
1859R. F. Burton Centr. Afr. in Jrnl. Geog. Soc. XXIX. 437 The ‘goose-skin’, which is the impress of sand or gravel..To clear the goose-skin of dirt.
Hence ˈgoose-skinned, ˈgoose-skinny adjs., affected with ‘goose-skin’.
1844Dickens Chimes i, A breezy, goose-skinned, blue-nosed,..tooth-chattering place it was, to wait in. 1878M. E. Herbert tr. Hübner's Ramble ii. ii. 258 It was the terrible revolver which had already made me feel goose-skinny on leaving Yokohama. |