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Goose skin   /gus skɪn/   Listen
Goose skin

noun
1.
Reflex erection of hairs of the skin in response to cold or emotional stress or skin irritation.  Synonyms: goose bump, goose pimple, goosebump, gooseflesh, horripilation, pilomotor reflex.






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"Goose skin" Quotes from Famous Books



... chloral and of remorse; and there is psychology of a weird and wonderful kind, that kind which Mr. Conway may justly be said to have invented and the result of which is not to be underrated. For, if to raise a goose skin on the reader be the aim of art, Mr. Conway must be regarded as a real artist. So harrowing is his psychology that the ordinary methods of punctuation are quite inadequate to convey it. Agony and asterisks follow each other on every page and, ...
— Reviews • Oscar Wilde



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