单词 | goose-flesh |
释义 | goose-fleshgoosefleshn. 1. The flesh of a goose. ΘΚΠ 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.) ΘΚΠ 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! Derivatives ˈgoosefleshy adj. (nonce-word) of or relating to ‘gooseflesh’; exhibiting ‘gooseflesh’. ΘΚΠ 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’. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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’. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.c1425 |
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